Fallacy

What was the last thing you searched for online? Why were you looking for it?

I went searching for a way
to prove to you
the earth is round
the sky is blue.

I stack studies like stones,
but you knock them down
with flawed papers
written by charlatans,
selling snake oil.

You wrap your children
in linen
and beeswax,
but they cannot breathe.

As viruses creep inside,
the pseudomembrane
thickens —
thickens —
strangling their airways.

And still you wail
that science is the enemy,
and the only thing
that kept the shadows at bay
was beef tallow
and
belief.

Yet the darkness still comes –

and I cannot Google
a way
to save you.