Good morning / someone you know is
probably dead. Have you checked yet? /
It’s your fault / If you followed /
If you didn’t follow / What the government
said / Blame someone else / We did
everything right / Best in the world /
Top of the line / But someone you know is
probably dead. Have you checked yet? /
We follow the science / It’s not our fault
/ Tests are readily available / Next month /
America is burning / It’s a boy /
How do you identify? /
Tick male / tick female / tick OTHER /
What do you mean other?
/ Were you born here? / There are migrants
dying in the channel / PEOPLE /
What do you mean people? / Someone
you don’t know is probably drowning /
There’s no need to bother checking.
The fisherman pull skulls from the deep /
/ all the fish are swimming elsewhere /
the scientists who cry extinct will be
inexplicably missing this evening.
Amy Wolstenholme is a scientist by day and a poet by night, originally from the beautiful Jurassic Coast. Whether slicing up a genome or carving out a stanza, her work comes from a place of awe and love for the natural world. Her recent works can also be found in Visual Verse, Crow & Cross Keys and in several places on the Young Poets Network. She can be found at @AmyWolstenholm3 on Twitter.