“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” Benjamin Franklin
Three quarters of us
believe we are together
to fix what is wrong.
Normal (COVID)
My biannual endocrinology blood test.
Don’t use real names my doctor suggested
last time I wrote a poem about him and my
biannual blood test and so today even though he has
a good name he is Jewish but has one of those names
like Abraham Lincoln today I will call my endocrinologist
not his name but Andrew Jackson
and I will go to my blood test fasting instead of drinking
coffee first and I listen to my new audio book
on the way through the park and see birds and other people
walking through the park we’re all masked as though being masked
is normal and I’ll get to his office and have my temperature taken
to make sure I don’t have a COVID temperature Peter took my
temperature this morning just in case and I did fine and I will not
go to the library afterwards what I usually do after I will
walk back through the park listening to my audio book and pretending
that this is normal and come inside and look out the window
and then I’ll try to write a poem called Normal.
Who We Are (COVID)
We are good.
Connected not by
what we believe what our
grandmothers looked like where they
came from not because
of words we speak
religion we do or don’t practice.
We are born to be part
of lives that aren’t our own
to walk together and when
we can’t walk one more step
to be there to help.
Maybe There Should Be No Poems on Sundays (but why not) (((DIVERSION)))(((COVID)))
My good friend Cindy knows I have collected Interesting scams
for many years with a specialty in NIGERIAN SCAMS (I am an admirer
of the often repeated line: We Have a Lot of Money for You
and It Is Now in Nigeria) and yesterday in the middle of Everything Else
difficult and impossible Cindy got a clever short
never seen before scam and she knew it would make me happy and so on Sunday even
though maybe this is No Poem Sunday (!) I am sending her scam to you.
Hello dear,
I contacted you due to your little similarity in name with my late
client who died in ghastly rail accident.Your prompt response will be appreciated for more details.
Sincerely,
Andrew John Lowndes Q.C.
What Can We Say Now (Covid)
We are
so many of us ready to fight what
happened what continues
to happen here we all are
inside together on the 30th of May
year of Trump and Covid and police
listening carefully to try
to understand, to know what we can do
and how we can change
this world and change this world we will.
To Find a Way
Truth, crushed to earth, will rise again.
William Cullen Bryant
George Floyd Ahmaud Arbery we say their names
knowing how much more we have to do
than say their names to change this world
live the way we all deserve we watch fires
of Minneapolis hoping what’s burning
are years of injustice listen to the young mayor
once a community organizer in his thirties
the second Jewish mayor of Minneapolis more
vigilant than before watchful of what we don’t understand
what we know for sure is May the real true power
we have when we are all together and then
June and we will persist and vote and find a way
a way we don’t yet know.