About Me

I was a second-career teacher, newly retired. In my other life, I crunched numbers as an accountant. Probably would have made a great math teacher had the thought occurred to me. No matter, I'm where I'm supposed to be. I have 2 grown daughters, 2 sons-in-law, a baby granddaughter, 2 poodles, and 1 hubby. I live and worked on Long Island.

Thursday, March 11, 2021

I am so over you

This was inspired by an especially long and snowy winter a few years ago when my class and I wrote poems called "Breaking Up With Winter." 


I am so over you, lockdown

We've gotta talk

I just can't do this anymore

I'm sick and tired of shouting "I can't hear you" through muffled masks

Dying to soften up my rough and chapped, hand washed and sanitized hands

I want to eat a meal in a restaurant,

be served, 

not to have to wash the dishes

I miss movies, shows, concerts, packing a suitcase

I need to dance at a party,

to celebrate a marriage, a birth, 

give a hug,

honor a life that has been lost

I can't pretend anymore

that this normal

Covid, I am so over you 

and have been for a long, long time.

I hate you

I hope you die


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3 comments:

  1. Cara WegrzynMarch 11, 2021 at 5:18 PM

    Even though I am 100% with you on the "I hate you" part, I really love how you personified COVID and wrote it a letter. "Breaking Up With Winter" poems also sound very interesting.

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  2. Lisa KeelerMarch 11, 2021 at 6:02 PM

    What a wonderful list. You've nailed so many things that are leaving a hole in our lives. And like you the muffled mask talk is really wearing me down. I love your letter structure.

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  3. AnonymousMarch 11, 2021 at 6:46 PM

    Amen to that!

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