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Cops in the T.P. aisle.
Everyone freaking out.
I just want the chips.
Scary Snacks
Going to the store,
to get the groceries and snacks
is scary right now.
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Big shopping tonight.
Just once a week till it’s safe.
Mandatory masks.
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Mask on in the store.
Wipes and gloves in my car now.
So afraid of germs.
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I like staying home.
FaceTime is not the same thing.
I miss real people.
Copyright 2020 by Valerie Beers
Bio:
Valeri Beers is from Bangor, Maine. She had her first book of poems titled …details… published by Thomas Hill Publishing and is focusing on putting together a 2nd book of haikus and poems titled Scratching The Surface. She has been writing all her life and is inspired to write by listening to music and needing to remember things. Valeri has been published in a number of print and online literary magazines including anthologies by Literature Today, Our Day of Passing anthology, Lit House, The Wicked and Poets of Maine. You can check out her own poetry site: wordsoftheval2000.wordpress.com. You can also connect with her on Facebook (Valeri Beers) and Twitter (@theval2000). She has been a guest poet on Quintessential Listening: Poetry, talking all things poetic and reading her own poems.Valeri also helps take poetic care of PoetryPasta (www.poetrypasta.wordpress.com), an online poetry page that shows off new poets and their words.
Donation Appeal:
Throughout June and July, we will be presenting on this web site work by poets and artists responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope you will find these works relevant, comforting and inspiring as we all cope with the economic and health-related fallout.
As you view the work on this site each day, we would like to encourage you to donate to the Arlington Food Assistance Center (AFAC). Their mission “ is to feed our neighbors in need by providing dignified access to supplemental groceries. AFAC is seeing a record number of families due to the COVID-19 pandemic as families who never thought they would ever be in need are now showing up at our doors for much needed food.” And, in keeping with our hunger-focused efforts, you may also want to visit the Poetry X Hunger website where poems by many poets are posted and are being used by anti-hunger organizations.”
Throughout June and July, we will be presenting on this web site work by poets and artists responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope you will find these works relevant, comforting and inspiring as we all cope with the economic and health-related fallout.
Please consider donating to AFAC. If you do, let us know which poet or artist inspired you so we can send you a personal thank you.
