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"In the Early Days of
a Global Pandemic."

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"In the early days
of a global pandemic

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I can't stop writing
about love, while everyone

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Is writing about a country.

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Everywhere in
America-- is everywhere

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America, yet?

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In America,

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Which is to say, everywhere,

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Americans are spreading rumors,

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Writing about a country
as if a country existed

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In the midst of a global
pandemic, about its citizens

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As if we were visible, while
America, which is an idea

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In our grasp, twists
itself into an eagle,

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Condenses into a bowl
of hot chicken soup,

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Then a factory never
retrofitted to make

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ventilators, then a trillion

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Dollars, then freshwater,
then saltwater,

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Then salt."

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That used to be $1 billion.

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And then I started feeling like
this is too old of a reference,

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but there was a movie
where the punchline was

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like, I want $1 million and
everybody's like, and what else?

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And I realized billion was
not nearly, not nearly enough.