Over With
by Chad Parenteau
protesters
chanting
end
now
remove
individuals
to
pandemic
standing
people
few
masks
many carried
virus
some wore
hats
people
keep saying
I don’t want
my families
Jeffrey Kuhner warned
virus
King
demonstration
promoted
nonessential
health
pandemic
closure
more people
in public
flame-emblazoned
people
Chad Parenteau is the author of Patron Emeritus, released in 2013 by FootHills Publishing. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Tell-Tale Inklings, Queen Mob’s Tea House, What Rough Beast, The Skinny Poetry Journal, Ibbetson Street, Molecule and Résonance. He serves as Associate Editor of the online journal Oddball Magazine. He has hosted the long-running Stone Soup Poetry series in Boston since 2004. His second full-length collection, The Collapsed Bookshelf, is forthcoming.
