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the queen that she is

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Neil Fleischmann

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Swatch watches were cool 

Swatch watches were cool

for a bit in the eighties.

I've never felt cool.

Someone said to me

that my way of being cool

is being uncool.

Till age twenty five

I chose to resist watches,

watched time on my own.

Once I decided

if I really liked a watch

that I would wear it

I gave Swatch a chance:

walked in the store, looked around

saw same old same old

Though they were trying

with bright colored vinyl bands

nothing caught my heart

Then, a faceless watch

looked at me and I looked back

and now it was time

Over thirty years

have carried me here to now.

I'm wearing a Swatch

My new faceless Swatch

automatic, off the grid:

it's my uncool cool.

To my second of four first cousins

Start in the middle

From there- travel back and through

that, I wish to do.

Return to my youth,

my small circled family

including you, me.

Nothing like cousins

are brothers, sisters, or friends

You, my love I send.

Never said goodbye
as Covid’s somehow still here.
Still, we’ve forgotten.

Somewhere in between
Bad nightmares and good dreams
Life’s not what it seems

Stuck inside my head
the way we bury our dead
and the words they said