Make America Healthy Again, he says
as if health were a slogan, not weather.
He holds food like contested scripture:
dyes, preservatives, words too long to trust.
“Return to purity,” he says,
while measles redraws old maps
without permission or press release.
Hospitals hum in reluctant chorus.
Pharmacies speak in minor key.
A mother searches immunity
and finds ten thousand prophets.
Even vitamins argue theology now.
He calls it restoration:
as if history were a diet plan
instead of a returning headline
with better lighting each time.
David Anson Lee is a physician, philosopher, and poet whose work
explores intersections of medicine, memory, and public life. His poems
have appeared in journals including Right Hand Pointing, Eunoia Review, Ink Sweat & Tears, and others. He is based in Texas.
