Black is an Underlying Condition

Dave Anthony
2 min readApr 15, 2020
Photo by Olu Famule on Unsplash

The sad truth illuminated by COVID 19

Black is an underlying condition,

Didn’t know? Where have you been?

Maybe in a reality with eyes wide closed,

Now opened by COVID 19.

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Black is an underlying condition,

Good research will say it’s no lie,

That social injustice drowns our lungs,

And so we disproportionately die.

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Black is an underlying condition,

No surprise that it makes us all sick,

As good health comes with true peace of mind,

And stress is its own pandemic.

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Black is an underlying condition,

That strips white blood cells of their fight,

Legal protections by day, stricken away,

Immune systems weakened by night.

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Dave Anthony
Dave Anthony

Written by Dave Anthony

Intellectual Property Lawyer, Engineer, Story-Teller/Writer, Reader, Music Lover, Picture Watcher, Broke Father, Rich Daddy. Working on first novel.