2020

A new year.
Fresh start.
First, a beginning.
Then whispers. Then worries.
Then precautions.

Pay attention
20 seconds is a long time.
(Here’s a song to sing while washing your hands.)
We’re in this together.
Better stock up.
Beans and Purel and toilet paper.
Masks are for doctors.
Don’t be selfish.
To close or to wait.
Hives. Meetings. Emails. Clean and sanitize and elbow bump. Emails. Announcements. Close. Stay home and wait.

2 weeks is a long time.

Empty shelves.
Full cupboards.
This is an opportunity.
We’re writing history.
Craft and learn and move online.
Puzzles. Weights. Rollerskates.
Zoom.
Bake.
REST.
Survive.
This is trauma. Learn to cope.
Masks are for everyone. Pay attention.
I can’t breathe.
8 minutes and 46 seconds is a long time.
Signs and marches and movements.
Some say riots. Others say release.
This is trauma.
401 years is a long time.
We’re writing history.
Are you paying attention?
There is more than one pandemic.

Hospice.
Loss.
No ceremony for the gone.
No comfort for the grieving.
This is trauma.
Just...do what you can.
The most important election of our lives.
(Lives shouldn’t hang on an election.)
Masks are for sheep. Masks are for everyone.
Don’t be selfish.
We’re in this together.
Which wave is this again?
Closures. Resistance.
9 months is a long time.
This is ridiculous.
This is trauma.

A vaccine.
Some say. Others say.
We’re all in this together.
Fuck 2020. Thank God it’s over.
Next year will be better.
Are you paying attention?
Only if we make it better.
We’re writing history.

It’s a new year.
Fresh start.
A beginning.