WHAT WE DID IN THE TIME BEING

☐ We strove to be new-muscled & green,

☐ To exercise,

☐ To express,

☐ To stay home,

☐ To stay sane,

☐ To render our ovens beating with breads,

☐ Our phones shining with excuses for parties.

We grasped our loved ones

By the slash of a screen,

Felt ourselves Zoombies,

Faces trapped in a prison of a prism.

The petty zoo[m] as it were.

& what could we have done differently?

We only have one way to not die.

It will be a blessing if our children

Never fully grasp what

It took to come to this.

☐ Grant them this poem
If they do forget it.

☐ If they do, forget it.