Return to normal – is it true?Is it possible for me or you?Is it possible for the world or us?After the settling of the dust. The past is gone, not coming backThe only thing that’s writ in black Nothing can be truly the sameSo now we need a different name. We’ll get used to the […]
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Image: Annemarie Mountjoy I’ve lost my sense of taste and smell They can’t smell or taste It’s hard to breathe with a mask on They no longer breathe I didn’t celebrate my birthday They have no more birthdays I can’t get the vaccine The vaccine came too late I’m tired of […]
Will we come out of our COVID cocoon in the spring more beautiful people with our wings fluttering with exceptional colors? Will we be kinder, gentler? Will we have gained knowledge about ourselves? Each other? This time will we have learned from this experience? If it should happen again, will […]
PANDEMIC WORDS in the grocery storespoken by yours truly: Excuse me you’re getting a little too close.6 feet apart PLEASE. I’m trying to keep 6 feet apart.You are going the WRONG way.Please don’t come so close to me.Forgive me, I am SCARED! PANDEMIC WORDS definitely not spoken in the grocery store: […]
My life began in Poland during the Holocaust. Born in March 1940, six months after the German invasion, I lived “hidden on the surface,” posing as Catholics with my mother in Warsaw from 1942 until 1944. My father joined us after he escaped from the ghetto. It’s the fall of 1944, […]
Part One I’m enjoying my time at home“cause now I have no place to roam. The “coronavirus” has come to town!Our world’s population is really down. A nasty virus making people ill.Some are dying and it’s not their will. It’s taken over our city and stateand all the countries and […]