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Off the Charts

News / tagged Covid19, Pandemic, Stay Home Stay Safe / July 2, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
We don’t remember a chart by heart

We don’t feel people’s pain 
with the math side of our brain

Even those shaped like a pie
bring neither saliva to mouth 
nor tear to eye

Carry today if you can 
a picture in your mind or hand

Be Kind, Be Safe, Wear and Wash

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Re-Set

Environment / tagged Covid19, History, Pandemic / April 23, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
When civilizations get
to the grape peeling stage
a mongol horde always shows up

After a while a phoenix may rise
but how many bones in the ashes

Image by Shutterbug75 from Pixabay 

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Driving on the Tracks

Audio Recordings, News, Ranch Life, Travel / tagged Pandemic / March 16, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
I think you are supposed
to take some air out
of the tires

It wasn’t something
that we thought about
gliding across the prairie night
with no one needing to steer
and lots of cold beer
and the throttle
(they had throttles then)

It is something we would
probably have thought about
going across the old wooden trestle
that and the freights that run at all hours

Except that we were too busy
holding back our friend in the back
almost as strong as the three of us
in his full blown panic

Trying to leap
over the front seat
to grab the quivering wheel

Image by David Mark from Pixabay

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