WHAT WE LEARN IN TIME OF PESTILENCE
what we learn in time of pestilence the blackberries mold again before they’re half-eaten everyone needs toilet paper and diapers dirt cheap new washing machines are hard to come by we/she/they have no words assisted living dragged through the dirt my mother struggles toward the bathroom on camera behind her walker, soils herself don’t talk dirty she can’t help it, but she’s still ashamed eat dirt I wiped her bottom in January & said I’d be back in March I am no fortune teller hit the dirt she g