Up late, then work looms
Teaching and guiding through Zoom

All in my home/room

Deal with what you see
not what you expect to see
in poems, in life.

While you're forgetting
all I do is remember
Oh, just forget it.

I seek my power
by pretending to cede it:
submissive control.

Now, there's also an
emotional contagion
- part of the virus.

Sometimes I know and
you don't know how I found out
My trick? You told me.