The First Thing People Will Struggle to Pay Is Rent
        "What To Do If You Can't Pay Rent Because Of Coronavirus Job Loss" ~ Huffington Post, 4/3/2020

The first thing people will struggle to pay is rent,
and there aren't many national protections for tenants
against the obvious threat of eviction.

Landlords have mortgages due, so eviction
is their way of securing those payments, through rent,
even if they genuinely like their tenants.

Families can refuse to leave, become squatting tenants,
use the virus as a shield against eviction.
The irony is that the virus doesn't pay rent

as it rents our lungs—a bad tenant, hard to evict.

Tweet

Copyright © 2020 Anna M. Evans All rights reserved
from The Quarantina Chronicles
Barefoot Muse Press
Reprinted by Verse Daily® with permission