Why do we stress that
someone grew up in a home
just when they didn't

- Inspired by and adapted from The Pull of the Stars, pg. 138


Every choice I make
seems to bring me new regrets
and that's a choice too

- Inspired by and adapted from The Pull of the Stars, pg. 154


Besides everything
that Corona is, it's a
monkey on my back


Sometimes, promised lands
are best viewed from the tops of
far away mountains

- Inspired by and adapted from a line in Pinny Bulman's poem, "To That End"

Old versus older:
Every second we're older,
so in time we're old.

*

I understand why
we bite the hand that feeds us
- because it's so close.

Facing the music:
Why is that such a bad thing?
Just face it and dance.

Adapted from observation of Billy Collins on his Pandemic Poetry Broadcast on Facebook today.

I'm thinking of you
and thinking of my thinking
of thinking of you

The second hand ticks
steadily, like a soldier
marching into war.

- Found Poetry: A sentence in "The Dinner List," by Rebecca Serle, page 254.

Corona time flies
similarly to old time
fast, fast and slow, slow