4 MAY STRANGE LIGHT OF NOT QUITE

COMING BACK BETTER THAN BEFORE  COMING BACK FOR WHAT? BY WHICH ACCOUNT AND WHOSE REASONING? 

IF CITIES ARE SEGMENTED AS SUBURBS   ENCLOSED IN LOTS OF TWO METRES  WITH NO CROWDS ALLOWED  FOR ONLY-THE-LONELYS TO WANDER IN                

IF DISTANCING CLOUDS EVERYTHING AREN’T WE ALL VAPORIZED NOW? PERHAPS IT FEELS MORE REAL WHEN SOMEONE YOU KNOW & LOVE IS ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL     

MAKES FOR A GOOD GOBSMACKING PROMPTING THE PROVERBIAL  PUNCH   IN THE SOLAR PLEXUS  REASSURINGLY    VISCERAL     GUTTURAL     

INSTEAD OUR VOICES ARE MORE LIKELY  TO BE SQUEAKY  AS IF FACE MASKS ARE PIPING HYDROGEN NOT OXYGEN   

NO NEED TO BE A SOPPY INTELLECTUAL   FROM STUNT MAN TO RUNT BOY     WE’RE EQUALLY INEFFECTUAL  

NEITHER WRONG NOR RIGHT  WHEN ALL THE WORLD’S NOT QUITE

WISHING WE COULD BE IN AT THE DEEP END AND STILL TOUCH BOTTOM    

YOURS TRULY       

THE NEWS POET