30/30: Golden Shovel poem #25

source: Despite Losses, CEOs Prosper Amid Pandemic

The money pot grows larger despite

pandemic lockdown losses,

So why does so much go to CEOs?

Who is truly responsible, who should prosper?

When work exposes to illness, who is essential amid

Viruses whose spread competes with conspiracy theories. What is the true pandemic?

 

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Here is how I am using Terrance Hayes’s Golden Shovel poem format, as proposed by the Sunday New York Times "At Home" section, for 30 Poems in 30 Days during National Poetry Month.

 

Take a newspaper headline that attracts you.

Use each word in the line as the end word for each line in your poem.

Keep the end words in order.

Describe the story that the headline is for.

The poem does not have to be about the same subject as the headline that creates the end words.