8:30 a.m.
Another 24 hours
Granted,
Calendar day
Unknown.
Waiting for
Caffeine
To pour on
Kitchen clouds
And blue screens
To deliver headlines of
A rudderless nation
Adrift in chaos.
Another 24 hours
To practice
Our being
Good citizens within distance
When to stay safe
Is to do nothing but
Wash your hands
And mask your thoughts
Lest you touch on
The wrong idea
And infect someone
With a different truth
Or inhale
An unpopular narrative
And exhale
The wrong opinion
And even with
Only that
Still
We struggle.
Ken Owen Van Niddy Press
July 2020
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