Plague Poems on Nostr: When they talk about it (if they talk about it all) they talk about the pandemic in ...

When they talk about it
(if they talk about it all)
they talk about the pandemic
in the past tense,
and they they wonder why
they keep having to talk about
how everyone they know is sick
in the present tense.

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The 229th week of plague poems…
https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2024/08/09/plague-poems-the-two-hundred-and-twenty-ninth-week/