Poem - Damp Masks
Sorry sights to see them grieving, six feet from each other. A girl weeps their in solitude, but does not hug her mother. Damp masks a'soaken slide down chin, and words they share between them. Bouncers intervene therein those actions they condemned. "You've been told once, you've been told twice. The masks, they stay up here" He gestured for them, with his fingers, masking ear to ear. They tried to mourn, now feeling scorned, for whom they lost that day. But they could only feel one feeling, not grieving, but dismay. The party was dismissed just then, and ordered not to linger. "Back to your homes and to your bubbles", again he waved his fingers. They queued to leave in single file, their heads down, eyes averted. The warden watched in comfort though, his safety not subverted.