Memories
by today’s measure
the world was as calm
as a snail, the great poet
said, “the world is too
much with us,” and
here we are today, three
centuries later, restricted
by the masks we have to
wear to keep the killer
virus at bay, not a single
day goes by that we don’t
heave a sigh at the loss
of what we had before
this evil thing made
a mockery of our
complacency.
The Infamous Interview
good life for her to see
herself
in the light of who she was
not,
and for three hours the lady from
the Times interviewed the
broken
man who was finally mending
from the horrendous trauma
that
uprooted his soul from himself
and loving family, but the
more
the mirror of the good man’s life
threatened the journalist’s image,
the more terrified she became
of
seeing what she was not, startling
her into the fight or flight response,
and she chose to stand her
ground
and fight the ignoble fight, smearing
the good man’s name with clever
deceptions and infuriating everyone
who stood for the truth, the
good,
and all things noble to man.
