Poem: Sick Tiger

Sick Tiger

When I hear of the tiger
in New York that has tested
positive for the coronavirus,
I think of Ulysses,
my fears for Melissa, for me,
our families, everyone, it is
compounded for a moment
as I think of him, worry,
though he is already gone,
and was never quite a tiger.

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