The A1 Verse: There is infinite hope
By Thomas Gaulkin | January 15, 2021
From an illustration by Zdenek Sasek
Every so often, a story published on the front page of the New York Times is so well written, meaningful, and appropriate to the Bulletin’s concerns that small snippets of it, properly chosen and arranged, produce something more than journalism, something that approaches … poetry. That blessed coincidence occurred January 15, 2021.
We suspect it’ll occur again.
Older People Who Want Shots Run Into a Tangle of Red Tape
or, I will show you fear in a handful of dust
(from the original by Sharon Otterman)
the person
has found it impossible
has become lost
the system
would like optimism
would fear reality
the parallel
exasperation
exhaustion
the situation
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Keywords: COVID-19, Coronavirus, The A1 Verse, vaccines
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Thomas Gaulkin is multimedia editor at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Prior to joining the Bulletin in 2018, he spent the... Read More
