A Rant on This Now. Or, Damn It!

[anirbas]

1.

From Alexis' speaker Billie E croons
"I don't wanna be here, anymore"
Reading luscious doomsday poems
as I listen and peruse pages
of poetry I think to myself

Who does? Wants to be here?

As opposed to there?
Or anywhere? Work?
Gotta mask it up.
Snap on the gloves.
Sanitize. Sanitize.
Don't answer the phone
till you've wiped it down
with antibacterial cleaner.
Zap the desk shared over shifts
with disinfectant spray. Spritz. Spritz.

Mask it up. Snap. Snap. Snap on the latex gloves.
Sanitize. Sanitize. Sanitize. Prioritize
cleanliness. Prioritize or you could die

2.

Friend or foe? Who can tell, anymore?
Everyone wearing masks of blue
white pink black and patterns
or sporting an important
message BLM- yes, they do

I don't know what's worse
The glaring unsmiling eyes
above a mask or the orbiters
that crinkle at the corners
signifying smiling behind
that mask of white pink black

Is it the smile of a friend?
Or a fawning prowling predator?
Perhaps a Xanax induced I'm so chill grin?
Go out? Who wants to? I have everything
I need right here in my comfort zone

Family. Books galore.
Netflix and so much more
on the television.
Internet. Computers.
Cellphones to reach
out and touch someone.
Or better, yet. Just text.

Oh! And, I don't have to mask it up.
Snap. Snap. Snap on the gloves.

Who does? Wants to be here, anymore?


3.

I light up a blunt
Inhale exhale stare
stare at the monitor
collecting my thoughts
Billie Eilish croons
"You should see me in a crown
I'm gonna run this nothing town"

I think to myself, goals, my dear goals
Something to look forward to here there anywhere
I'm not giving up on the universe myself or us and them
This virus can kiss my crone's ass right after my second
vaccination kicks in and I'm not a threat to my loved
ones my friends and even the strangers
that pass through my territory
and across my horizons

As soon as those interlopers
have been unmasked universally
and I can see if they have fangs

Perhaps I will continue wearing
my ubiquitous black mask after all
so my own fangs aren't on view


Reading luscious doomsday poems
as I listen and peruse pages
of poetry I think to myself

Who does? Wants to be here?

Me. I still have a lot
of living to do, damn it!

Anirbas aka Nir.

[darkness0within]

Interesting write anirbas.

Very well written essay on our current situation. A poignant view from the sharp end so to speak.

Excellent piece my friend.

[phantasm]

What we've been observing in our culture(s) for the past, oh year or so is a big gigantic spotlight on the current state of the human race. There is an appalling lack of understanding coming out of the general public. We have laws that mandate an education of some kind for everyone, And yet, people act as though they barely understand the principles that under-gird the behavior of disease.

Were all these thousands upon thousands of people sleeping through their HS biology classes? Do you not understand how disease gets transmitted? Do you not realize how you catch the flu every year or couple of years? Come on, people.....

(of course, I am aware I am preaching to the choir when it comes to you guys.)

[heartfelt7]

You certainly found the right words for the inertia I have felt - (hard to get going again and not really wanting the same place as before). I wonder if we weren't gobsmacked by some unseen force taking names and kicking butt. "Making a list and checking it twice" as to those who preach we are our brother's keeper and those who practice it.

[anirbas]

I thank all three of you for your reads and comments!

Heartfelt, like you I am ready for something different in this country.

[phantasm]

(psst, hey Nir... did you see anything about my new practice blog yet, the Self-Taught Imagineer? It's in the website's blog section...
Just wondering...)

[anirbas]

I believe I did. Or I thought I commented in it. Perhaps not. Perhaps I meant to comment on it and it slipped my mind. Haha. I will give
it a gander for sure, Phant.

[artolmaeus]

this is what I needed to read today....a hole has been filled and restored....gratzi...

I will go and put my hands into dirt and then lick them clean too.