Well both Bill & Millicent have caught aspects of the now
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>> From: Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: POETRYETC <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tue, Apr 7, 2020 9:28 pm
>> Subject: Re: quarantine poem
>>
>> ... with sanitiser and hope. Yes, Millicent you catch the mad days and
>> activities well here.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 at 2:05 pm, Millicent Borges Accardi <
>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Bread
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> For those ofus who know, knew
>>>
>>> know, known,it was a bet that we made,
>>>
>>> hoping for alast breaking of luck
>>>
>>> before theworld ran out.
>>>
>>> It wasbetting and binding and--
>>>
>>> I tell you--wewere bleeding
>>>
>>> as we wentout to get cardboard
>>>
>>> boxes in therain and washed
>>>
>>> over oursouls with Clorox.
>>>
>>> It was flinginga flung
>>>
>>> while wetried to fly again.
>>>
>>> To breakbread, crusty and warm.
>>>
>>> And, thenlife was forbidden and
>>>
>>> everyone wasan enemy.
>>>
>>> The air waspoison and spit was
>>>
>>> evaporating intoa daily forecast.
>>>
>>> We weretelevision-glued
>>>
>>> as newsrolled by and the rooms
>>>
>>> misled usinto doing the nonsense
>>>
>>> We knew weshouldn’t:
>>>
>>> over-drinking,board games.
>>>
>>> It wasraining for three days
>>>
>>> as I recalland the boxes delivered
>>>
>>> on the porchgot wet. I went
>>>
>>> out there wrappedin bandannas,
>>>
>>> withsanitizer and hope.
>>>
>>> It was allthere was and all we had
>>>
>>> to stockpilekale and bok choy
>>>
>>> just incase. Of what?
>>>
>>> The unseenwar criminal that spreads
>>>
>>> its over-washedhands wide across countries.
>>>
>>> We want toleave, lose
>>>
>>> lend, lie. We are shook and shaken
>>>
>>> and lookingfor fever. For signs.
>>>
>>> and it isentirely unmanageable.
>>>
>>>
Douglas Barbour
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https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Listen. If (UofAPress):
Shakespeare
drag yr mouldy old bones
up these stairs & tell me
what you died of,
I think
I’ve got it
too.
Sharon Thesen
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