Plague Journal

[Piscator]

Coronavirus conundrum

Is it appropriate to "bump" with the elbow one just coughed into?

 

[todski28]

Coronavirus conundrum

Is it appropriate to "bump" with the elbow one just coughed into?

I now bow at people as if I’m Japanese

 

[Piscator]

Ellis Marsalis est mort

Covid-19 complications
there should be a Jazz Parade
in the French Quarter
but given the times
it won’t happen
just lonesome solos
for a saxophone
and a trumpet.

 

[Piscator]

My apologies for removed poems but I may want to submit them elsewhere

 

[Piscator]

My apologies for removed poems but I may want to submit them elsewhere

 

[Piscator]

When it Become Real

Spanish flu: 1918–1922 – ancient history
HIV:1981-???? Damn shame but I’m straight
SARS: 2002-2003 – limited infectivity and I avoid hospitals
H1N1 swine flu: 2009 – limited infectivity and I avoid pig farms
MERS: 2012-???? – mostly Middle East but I live in Canada
Ebola: 2014–???? – Central and West Africa but I live in Canada
Zika: 2015–2016 - Central and South America but I live in Canada
Covid-19: 2020-???? - Why weren’t we prepared????????????????????

 

[Piscator]

Quatre-vingts jours

Quatre-vingts jours
on Duolingo and I’m still
in the present tense which
is fine as I still make mistakes
masculine et feminine are a bit
of a toss but I’m getting better
lesson by lesson and I have
cent et dix-huit crowns et
trois cent quarante-six lingos
whatever they are.

I’m best at translating français écrit
to written English and am getting
better at transcribing français parlé
but to be honest, I must admit that
mon français oralé is halting at
best and it’s not helped by the
covid-19 self-distancing/lockdown
as my Continuing Education course
FRENCH II is in limbo with every
thing else and we haven’t had a class
for weeks and when I look at the
class notes it seems we’re stuck
au milieu de passé impartait
et futur proche.​

My apologies for removed poems but I may want to submit them elsewhere

 

[Angeline]

Six people in my facility have tested positive for Covid-19, three on my floor. One of them is in the hospital; the rest are here in isolation with dedicated staff. The five here are doing well and taking Tamiflu.

Today everyone was tested. Not a pleasant experience, but I am grateful that we have tests available. For now staff is well equipped with PPE. I feel like I'm trapped in a Twilight Zone episode...but then I guess we all do.

Test results will be back in a few days. I think I'm good for now: no fever and my oxygen saturation is good. Keep me in your thoughts poets, as you are in mine.

Three things I miss:

Hugging my kids
Quiet time for writing
Baseball!

 

[AmericanTrash]

Together Apart

We have always been together apart. Angeline my heart goes out to you. People fall all around me. So far more than 40 educators, 5 student parents, my cat, and a few of our mutual heroes.

It feels right to mourn. It feels right to laugh. It feels right to say I love you.

I love you.

 

[AmericanTrash]

Coronavirus conundrum

Is it appropriate to "bump" with the elbow one just coughed into?

We DO need a like button.

 

[Angeline]

We have always been together apart. Angeline my heart goes out to you. People fall all around me. So far more than 40 educators, 5 student parents, my cat, and a few of our mutual heroes.

It feels right to mourn. It feels right to laugh. It feels right to say I love you.

I love you.

I love you too. We will live to celebrate girly poetics, curly hair and online readings again!

 

[Tzara]

Six people in my facility have tested positive for Covid-19, three on my floor. One of them is in the hospital; the rest are here in isolation with dedicated staff. The five here are doing well and taking Tamiflu.

Today everyone was tested. Not a pleasant experience, but I am grateful that we have tests available. For now staff is well equipped with PPE. I feel like I'm trapped in a Twilight Zone episode...but then I guess we all do.

Test results will be back in a few days. I think I'm good for now: no fever and my oxygen saturation is good. Keep me in your thoughts poets, as you are in mine.

It feels right to mourn. It feels right to laugh. It feels right to say I love you.

Dear Angie, it does feel right to say I love you, though in my case it's an uneven mix of Platonic admiration and sixteen-year-old crush on the smart cute girl three rows in front of me.

Be well. Be well. Be well.

(If you say anything three times, it works kinda like a spell. I think.)

 

[Piscator]

Six people in my facility have tested positive for Covid-19, three on my floor. One of them is in the hospital; the rest are here in isolation with dedicated staff. The five here are doing well and taking Tamiflu.

Today everyone was tested. Not a pleasant experience, but I am grateful that we have tests available. For now staff is well equipped with PPE. I feel like I'm trapped in a Twilight Zone episode...but then I guess we all do.

Test results will be back in a few days. I think I'm good for now: no fever and my oxygen saturation is good. Keep me in your thoughts poets, as you are in mine.

Three things I miss:

Hugging my kids
Quiet time for writing
Baseball!

Damn Angie, if it weren't for bad luck but we don't want to think bad thoughts. Keep positive, stay strong and soon you'll have 2 of those three things back. I'm not sure about baseball though.

 

[Angeline]

Damn Angie, if it weren't for bad luck but we don't want to think bad thoughts. Keep positive, stay strong and soon you'll have 2 of those three things back. I'm not sure about baseball though.

Thank you my fishy friend.

I'm keeping my spirits up for my kids. That is a big motivator for me. And my vitals are good this morning: no fever, good oxygen saturation!

Too bad I can't get New England Sports Network here. I'd happily watch old Red Sox games at this point. Guess I'll check YouTube.

 

[Angeline]

Dear Angie, it does feel right to say I love you, though in my case it's an uneven mix of Platonic admiration and sixteen-year-old crush on the smart cute girl three rows in front of me.

Be well. Be well. Be well.

(If you say anything three times, it works kinda like a spell. I think.)

It's a mutual admiration society as you know.

The poems help a lot.

May we all be well.

 

[butters]

It's a mutual admiration society as you know.

The poems help a lot.

May we all be well.

sending e-hugs and bug-fighting vibes to you, my friend. they know a lot more about this virus now, so stay focused on the future and think jazzy thoughts. to me, you're always the girl with the pony tail and flatties, groovin' on a mountainside, surrounded by love and poetry.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Poem for the Plague

I am not a prayerful person
so it is not a prayer you are in
when you are in my thoughts
but eternal light surrounds you,
protects you, helps you survive
these unfamiliar days.

It will be months, a year before
we can get close again but now
we’ll always wonder if it is wise.
Breath is suspect stuff now,
carrying germs we do not want.

I long for the before times when
we were free to gather, laugh so
close we felt the air move and
share sunsets side by side, even
holding unwashed hands.

Stay safe, my friends-I’ve-never-
met but feel I know. Wash weary,
chapped hands and only venture
out masked like a bandit.
Above all write poetry,
it is good for the soul.

 

[todski28]

Fuck Angie




https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/copper-virus-kill-180974655/

I wish I could send you a copper room
with cooper furniture
and a mask infused with copper
and every microgram of copper
that runs through my veins

because although the sun still shines
the fear for you rises
a shadow that’s black as staring death in the eyes
and my own are not hollow voids
but filled with all the emotions
I can’t contain

 

[Angeline]

Thank you all for your love and caring, your kind and powerful words. You are my family and I love you very much...even though it's hard to explain how people I've never met can fill so much of my heart.

My results are back and I'm positive for Covid-19. I'm mostly asymptomatic which is very good. No fever, good oxygen saturation. Mostly I'm fatigued and noticed about five days ago that I couldn't smell or taste stuff. I thought I was psyching myself out.

I'm gonna hang in there. I've conquered worse than this.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Thank you all for your love and caring, your kind and powerful words. You are my family and I love you very much...even though it's hard to explain how people I've never met can fill so much of my heart.

My results are back and I'm positive for Covid-19. I'm mostly asymptomatic which is very good. No fever, good oxygen saturation. Mostly I'm fatigued and noticed about five days ago that I couldn't smell or taste stuff. I thought I was psyching myself out.

I'm gonna hang in there. I've conquered worse than this.

Oh Shara! I wish you well. I know you're a fighter and feel you will be fine.

 

[Angeline]

Oh Shara! I wish you well. I know you're a fighter and feel you will be fine.

My dear PoeTess. x12.

I feel the same, confident that I'll get through this mostly unscathed. I have some powerful guardian angels looking out for me!

 

[Tzara]

I can't send you a Get Well Soon card, so this will have to do.

 

[Lyricalli]

Thank you all for your love and caring, your kind and powerful words. You are my family and I love you very much...even though it's hard to explain how people I've never met can fill so much of my heart.

My results are back and I'm positive for Covid-19. I'm mostly asymptomatic which is very good. No fever, good oxygen saturation. Mostly I'm fatigued and noticed about five days ago that I couldn't smell or taste stuff. I thought I was psyching myself out.

I'm gonna hang in there. I've conquered worse than this.

I know I haven't been around lately, but I had to respond when I peeked in and saw this. Just wanted you to know that I'm sending much love and hopes for quick healing your way. There will always be a spot in my heart for this place, and you're a big reason why. Kick this thing's ass.

 

[Piscator]

We are of a generation that
never grew up, but which
now has now grown old.
Our dreams of a bright
new future have coroded
into a present tarnished
by dreams of avarice and
poisoned by our emissions
and are now playing hide
and seek with a virus.

 

[AmericanTrash]

Careful

Cats can get the virus. I had it and gave it to my 20-year old friend who died of it. Please, if you do have it, be careful around your cats. https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/6/21211217/pets-cats-tigers-bronx-zoo-covid-19-coronavirus