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Isolation express! Leaving on track... wait - we're going nowhere.


 

Morning Routines

What do theologians call a life without events?

The lights of my prison-like room dawn before sun's first blush. 
I open sand-papery eyes as my AI announces the morning.

I begin the puppetry of morning routines:
I study my pale inmate face as I polish the porcelain. 

I look less of a drowsy-angel than a zombie as I splash cold water 
on the face with an almost determined lack of expression.

I’m absorbed in an ocean of predawn cold 
as I 5-mile-walk away my sleepiness - this small freedom 
- keeps me fit and acceptably sane.

Later, bathed in hot indifference,
and clothed in exhausting obligations, 
I dine, at my reserved table, with my gang of irritations. 

Soon I’m ready for another taxing day 
of waiting for the disease to run its course.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2021

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Leffanta Avatar
January 18, 2021 at 11:43 AM
Opportunity slaps everyone in the face every day but most people never see it because they believe it is still around the corner .....Aloha! Rico
Vionet Avatar
January 19, 2021 at 4:06 AM
i LIKE that (around the corner) I may steal it =]
Mcintosh Avatar
January 18, 2021 at 5:39 AM
This is intense - Sad, too. God bless you and I hope the disease soon leaves too
Vionet Avatar
January 18, 2021 at 9:01 AM
I hope YOU get your wish! HA! Thanks =]
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