'Where is Our Fair Share?' A Poem on the Oxygen That We Take for Granted
Whenever we think of 2021, what comes to mind are the difficult months of the second wave, which so many of us spent scrambling for oxygen or hearing about it. The acute shortage of oxygen in 2021 was symbolic of the myriad shortages that plague our system. For a democracy to survive on ballots as opposed to bullets, the voters will have to awaken to their basic duty of seeking accountability from their elected officials.