Unsettled

No one wore masks

At the BMV

Where photos are required

On the driver’s license.

Even the clerks

Breathed openly

Over the elderly

And severely

Immunocompromised

Like me.

The only person masked

The one most in need

Of protection.

Required to unmask

For a photo

To prove identity

And that I am

No threat

Driving a car

Or boarding a plane.

And yet,

The un-masked

Are allowed

To threaten me.