I look upon you
so often
we talk
sometimes it seems theres something
but its a flicker
not quite enough to light a fire.
I thought about what it would be like
to hold you
and we'd hold each other
making this big old scary world seem
a lot less scary
you know?
(Every so often it seems theres an enuendo from you
or is it me reading too much into something?)
But outside these walls you don't see me
don't call upon me
so its all but a dream

*****

COPY CAT

Copy where I put my lunch
Where I take my lunch
Suddenly decide to listen to music because I'm doing it.
break out the computer like me
and even start going to the store like I do
sometimes buying what I buy.
Its a bit freaky
because I know you don't want to be me.
So many people do this though
making me wonder if they they lack independent thought.
Steal my ideas
watch my every move
shun me yet snatching samples of who I am
steal my crew
steal my concepts
throw them all in a pot and shake them up
but its only your ambitions that fall from the strainer
You like me
but at the same time you wanna kill me.
Perhaps you wish to consume me
just like on Highlander
cut off my head and take all that I am
to make yourself better.
What an unholy marriage we are.

*****
Walking outside
you don't see many people
Some think its the end
the world fighting back against mankind
pollution has definitely slowed
because everybody is inside
giving mother nature the chance to bounce back
since they won't do it voluntarily
she up and said Ima force your ass then.
Everybody wearing these masks
I don't
I trust this crazy immune system the gods gave me
Crime is down
People are actually acting right for a change
helping each other.
Scary as the pandemic seems
its achieving some good
as insane as that is to say.
So far (to my knowledge)  I've not lost anyone
even though my heart aches for those who have.
Some can't even go to work
since so many business are shuttered.
No E3 this year
No comic cons.
Not even sure if the airlines are functioning
whole world gone mad
because its all been shut down.
"Stay your ass home!"
Everybody keeps telling us.
So we do
and all we can do is wait
trying to go on
waiting for that stimulous check
trying not to get so lost in despair
so lost in becoming shop aholics
running back and forth to the store because we're afraid we might run out of things
if tomorrow the supermarkets shutdown for good.
I do like that the streets are almost empty
no one really taking the ubers
and the buses are free
mostly because the drivers want us to stay the hell away from them.
Some folks are protesting
saying they want hazard pay for having to work in this situation.
Places are running out of masks
and hospitals are packed
yet in all this we remember those we rarely "see"
the medics,food folks and law enforcers out there
because unlike most of us
they have always been
….on the front line.