• Corona Chronicle,  Poetry

    Negation # 19 by Alistair McCartney

    Medium: aesthetic distancing, epidemiology

     

    John Keats did not die from the Coronavirus.

    Grammatically speaking, one does not

    Die from the virus:

    As a direct cause of death,

    One dies of it.

    One dies from an indirect agent, for example,

    He died from falling down the Spanish Steps.

    John Keats never entered the Prada store

    Near the Spanish Steps.

    Though epidemiologically speaking, in terms

    Of viruses and the blurriness

    Of direct/indirect causes,