Grocery Shopping

Tape the walls, tape the street.

Tape the floor around your feet.

Tape can wrap its way around

Ankles, springing from the ground,

Climb your hips, your elbows, neck,

Fingers as you write a check,

Up your nose and in your teeth -

Make you forget how to breathe,

Infiltrate your crannied brain,

Fry the nerves and tangle veins.

Tape is all that you can see.

Tape is all that’s left of me.

Why the tape around your heart?

Please maintain six feet apart.