bad news
carefully contained
but not couched
with numbers, percentages
data we understand
but cannot take in
not now
after this hope
this careless hope
and the dread we told each other was
a healthy pessimism
what is
all too clear
too real
is
this
so soon
carefully contained
but not couched
with numbers, percentages
data we understand
but cannot take in
not now
after this hope
this careless hope
and the dread we told each other was
a healthy pessimism
what is
all too clear
too real
is
this
so soon