DAY
94: Dazed, dazed, we're dazed
we
go on with chores and interactions
we
eat times 3 and sleep in fits
we
remember to brush our teeth
or
not but we're in constant shock
shocked,
stunned, gut-punched, dazed --
it's not improving.
it's not improving.
100,000
Americans dead in 2 months
so
many more victims falsely divided by nation
united
by horror -- the Black Death --
how
can we work, how can we
study,
how can we imagine a future --
even
when we do it
we
don't know how.
to
live in a plague, to move here
to
there, day to day, person to
person,
with love, with kindness
with
hope -- what hope? 100s
of
1000s dead -- a tragedy too large
for
us to embrace and without an
embrace
it will never
go
away.
it's
right that we're this way
the
only reaction acceptable
the
dazed generation
out
in the street, with friends
pretending
they're not
all
pretending it will end
making jokes, smoking,
making jokes, smoking,
knowing that this is our life
now
and always.