Second Cup of Coffee in the Time of the Pandemic

[dukealien]

Second Cup of Coffee in the Time of the Pandemic


Here we sit comfortably isolated
wired and wirelessed to friends
and family and news. Our coffee cools
our metabolic temperatures remain
unfevered. Later we shall take
long walks sometimes with the dog
sometimes without. In time no doubt
the virus will infect us and we shall
expire from it or likely from
some other malady like deep dementia
old hearts' weakness or time's consequence.
Despite news panics frauds and discontents
our coffee cools but not before it's drunk.