The Quarantine Chronicles, Day 94

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.

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,

knowing that this is our life

now and always.