While Jean Doesn’t Write

Here’s a fun ditty nudging my poetry pal Jean. She works 80 hours a week at saving the world and seems to forget that writing is a lifeboat with room for all. I volleyed this to her years ago and challenged her to answer me. Here’s a reminder, you delicious workaholic!

While Jean Doesn’t Write

While Jean doesn’t write,
seditious phrases make their escape
to parallel dimensions where
mothman aliens hunt and gather them,
eat them silently and then
look through at us knowingly.
This phenomenon is entirely
Jean’s fault.

While Jean doesn’t write,
17 wars that we know of continue
like a second day of rain,
race relations in America harden into
pre-1970’s pessimism
and 2/3 of her neighbors fail to recycle.
Indeed, for every day that
Jean doesn’t write,
another Republican actor runs
for office.

While Jean doesn’t write,
her lifelong friends don’t change.
Her adult children do what they will.

—WT

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