The intake form
at the doctor’s office
included the question
“are you feeling
down, depressed, or hopeless?”
which seemed to me
like a rather rude way of asking
“are you paying attention
to the state of the world?”

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Plague poems week 316…

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Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Sixteenth Week

Based on the weather outside my office I fear sweater season is ending. Based on the coughs inside my office I fear plague season is enduring. * With everything else that is happening it may seem l…

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