Incorrigible/Us

A local politician

Spewing venom

Before distributing 

Party-logo printed masks among people . . .

Someone

Mortifyingly

Trying hard to stop

Her baby from

Hitting the live camera . . .

Some random guy

Shouting

"Am I audible?"

In a webinar

Blabbering nothing but empty words . . .

Local administration

Seizing a dilapidated shop

Malls

Beaming with people . . .

The weary participants

Trying hard to re-connect . . .

The unmuted

Mute students

Desperate for their attendance . . .

An institutional head

Issuing written order

Against the absent faculty

Wheezing at home . . .

A mask and gloves wearing man

Counting our sins 

On a sanitized rosary

Boasting about God . . .

We are

As we were 

Before the pandemic -

Stubborn.

Ignorant.

Selfish.

Unsympathetic.