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Rated: 18+ · Book · Spiritual · #1149750
10k views, 2x BestPoetryCollection. A nothing from nowhere cast words to a world wide wind
#991694 added August 27, 2020 at 11:33am
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In A Pandemic
In a pandemic
the fat men in small jerseys
have no place to sweat,
so the geese take the field.

The long corridor
to connecting avenues
intruded by just one car
on a Wednesday night
greets us.

You could scream and hear
your voice roll down
12 city blocks to disturb
dwellers in their cells divided.

What joy is a car
like a Sunday station wagon,
cutting through humid night,
free as a child in pajamas
hoping for ice cream
before slumberland.

Small crickets
in the best mating season
warm to the throatiest chorus,
fiddling on wing
beneath a window
tossed open.

Air conditioning be damned.
I want to experience this
before we're lost again
in the ensuing chaos
called life.


8.27.20

don't know that this needed stanzas but I wanted to break the text up.

Just struck me as funny there is no high school football practice, so the geese are all over the school property where we just turned in the last of my kid's school property. I remembered last night going for a drive and noting once again there is no one moving from here to there because there is nothing to go to better than a firepit and some brews in the backyard to look at the stars and formed constellations forgotten. Yup, I could incorporate all that. Another time.

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