. . . please send me home now,
to my beloved country. My heart yearns
to go back home.
--from Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey
Yes.
Please send me home
to the Before where my friends and I
met every other Wednesday
to eat bacon and eggs sunny side-up
while discussing books and films
and our mothers and that man in the White House
and knitting and bridge and travel plans
and partners and the pain
aging bodies inflict on young souls
and the joys and sadness that adult children
bring in their wake.
Please send me home to that again.
Yes.
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The Pandemic will undoubtedly produce great writing; This is proof of that. I like this a lot.
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