Awaiting a Secret Transmission
Working from home is not exactly good
Because all I want is to eat good food
Pouting tantrums, snarky, shrill, then sad…
(Not the children, mind you, but their dad)
Focus Focus!
I need Hocus Pocus
Coffee, coffee and then more caffeine
Makes me a lean pandemic machine
Today I miss going to the market
but not parking lots, carts, or where to park it
The dog barking at the delivery man
bringing another meal served in a can
Lots of cakes, cookies and banana bread
Is there a vaccine for the fatty spread?
Now I recall why cooking is not on my list
No one else has cleaning on theirs. That’s the twist
All I do is sing and clean house
No need to be quiet as a mouse
Chirping, flying, birds are merrier,
Listening to them, I fly farther
Living on the fringes of the world
days and weeks together swirled
Today I miss going for a walk outside
But in my mind I go for an imaginary ride
Now that I have the solitude I crave
All that I want is to go to a rave
Looking cool in a bandana mask,
Sipping wine from a hidden flask
Wondering where to go when I do go out
A park, an ocean, or thereabout
Whispering in the window I see
someone laughing and smiling!
Human contact I dearly miss
Pats, hugs, a cheek kiss
Orange blossoms’ fragrance floats from yard to yard
sticky sweet but always makes me sneeze so hard
She carries it with her wherever she goes
Sharing her secret virus, but nobody knows
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