PARADIGM WOBBLE

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Bad News Poem
Conclusion:

Eyes glued at the television
Staring at the screen for another vision
Of bad news.
"Worst Week" in the headline
On the newspaper clip
And I wonder why
I took my index
Out for a dip
In the thread, the blasted Web of Covid-19 hashtags
And plot lines
These are a "Sign of the times"
And
"It is all bad"
My eyes
Strain
Wobble from socket
I hope for some positive spin
Maybe history will
Provide the cure?
Yeah, sure! Except history repeats
So that means that even back
In ancient times, they had bad news
So, what did they do?
Perhaps, art?
The cure for what ails us
Feeds and
Sustains us
In these times
Of containment
We draw wobbly eyes
Four eyes
Of surprise at what
We are seeing
We draw some lines and
Find
Geometric signs
And make up
Stories of the glory
Still
To rise
We don't talk of demise, but of Moon
Shine
Rid the world of
its isolation... it's our
Salvation
In these bad news times
Four eyes
Staring and caring for one another
My Sisters, Brothers, Fathers, and
Mother, please be with us
Heal us and
Reveal to us
A power like no other in
The Multiverse
Where, even at its worst...it
Awe
Inspires and
Delights us
With chaos that
Provides opportunities to be
Better than we were before
For
We are all in this together and there is no other place
To be (or not to be)
Than here with you and
You with me and
Not
Alone

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Maggs Vibo · A Paradigm Wobble