If you were here

 

 If you were here,

we'd meet at Le French Cafe for croissants and coffee

bundled in down jackets

masks around our necks

it's a strange time

If you were here and COVID was not,

I'd sneak over to your house for a margarita,

we'd laugh like idiots, me especially, and 

then I'd todder back home, happy and sated.

.we will have to wait for better days.

If you were here, we would discuss family matters,

you would be kind about mine, and I, about yours. 

Families, in all stripes, are complicated and involve much

compromise.

If you were here and COVID was not,

I would look over your shoulder while you were cooking

because I'm doing that now

and it's fun

but especially, if you were here,

I could look directly into your eyes, and see the 

rapidly changing expressions dance across your face.

If you were here,

I would not have to miss you.

This is Stephen

Three half empty bottles of hand soap.

I laughed in recognition of my love, the one

who saves bags and boxes of rags to clean his bike,

enough to carelessly throw away when they are dirty

but they pile up in the yard

"they may be useful one day"

I collected seven "technically empty" tubes

of sunscreen, emptying the last few drops into

a glass jar - we are conservateurs, after all.

I'm not sure how many bike pumps wander 

at night throughout the house, or dog bowls,

there are so many shirts that don't fit,

and never will.

He is a salve to the American buy-it/throw-it culture

but I wish he would empty one before opening

another.

waiting for Biden

they say he's too old, yet another white male

I can tell he's had a face lift,  it was well done, quand meme.

I can't wait until he's President

hoping he'll push the other White Guy in a ditch 

on the way in.

No, he is such a gentleman.

the Police will do their job.  

I am waiting/ we are waiting for Biden to take the helm,

when the world can look upon us with envy, 

instead of horror and pity.

I'm waiting, let this race be called today!!!

P.S. He just won!