Pre-existing Condition

 All the COVID tests proves

is that a disease exists.

It doesn’t prove we exist.

That’s the proof 

no one has ever found.

There are symptoms, of course.

But all the alchemy of philosophy 

has not provided a touchstone 

to transmute our ignorance to gold.

There is no insurance to provide

assurance of the next moment,

let alone what will become of us,

no prognosis for life; the present

nor the future one.

The secret nobody knows

is how square one arose.