What is more important to you than living?

Recently, Texas' Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick said "there are more important things than living" as a justification for the state moving ahead with re-opening businesses in the age of "19."

So, what is more important to you than living?

You decide.

Mayor Carolyn Goodman of Las Vegas calls shutdown “total insanity” in the age of "19."

Are local shutdowns “total insanity?”

You decide.

What is more important…going back to work or living to see another day.

What is your tipping point?

You decide.

Do you work to live or live to work

In the age of 19?

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Today’s posting spotlights two poems, “A Global Phenomenon” and “In Search of a Cure.”

Inalegwu Omapada Alifa, also known as Innocent Inalegwu Alifa, is a young Nigerian writer whose works have found home from "MockingHeart Review" to "Parousia Magazine," "Yellow Chair Review" to "Lunaris review," "Expound Magazine of Arts and Aesthetics" to "GFT Series," "Manchester Review" to "GFT Presents: One in Four: A Philanthropic Literary and Art Press," "poeticdiversity" to "Visceral Brooklyn," "Saraba Magazine" to "Sentinel Literary Quarterly: The Magazine of World Literature," "Eyedrum Periodically" to “aaduna” and "Spectrum."

Inalegwu Omapada Alifa (photo on file)

Inalegwu Omapada Alifa

City:                Akwanga

State:               Nasarawa

Country:          Nigeria

A Global Phenomenon

From one victim to the next

and from country to country

across continental shelves,

spheres and boundaries,

covid-19 has become a global phenomenon

with its deadly gaze

breaking up human systems,

shattering bodies

and living unsheltered children

with victimised parents

in need of healing

without which the scent of peace

is lost and almost most people

become casualties by the day

whose seconds and minutes are a discordant rhythm.

* * *

In Search of a Cure

I am in Nigeria

sitting indoors

and peering through the window,

watching the winds

passing unseen

yet afflicting and inflicting

a world breaking its legs

and hands and necks

with eyes falling out.

Respiratory tracts block

as nations review budgets

in search of a cure

of the pandemic

called coronavirus
that’s taking a toll.

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