PANDEMIC DIARY

FOR LOVE’S SAKE
May 31, 2021

FOR LOVE’S SAKE

I want to love for love’s sake
I want to love for the sake of loving.

I want to be love
gooey, gentle, sentimental love;

dedicated and devoted and
committed love;

moon, spoon, croon
kissin’ in the dunes love,

wet, just met, each day, every
day since we met love;

walk in the park, among the trees,
pee in the weeds love;

enigmatic, ambiguous, inscrutable,
puzzling, perplexing love;

“You’re wrong” “You’re right”
who gives a damn love;

cuddly, snuggly, ‘bear-
huggilly’ kind of love;

no holding back, all in,
balls to the wall love;

cozy, posey, day-time
dozy in my arms love;

everlasting, never-ending, beyond
death do us part love.

no half way, part way -
you’re either in or you’re out love.

ask nothing in return and
reap the world love…for love’s sake.

PANDEMIC DIARY

“THE BEE’S KNEES”

July 25, 2020

Alas! Were I but bobbing at sea
”To land” ne’er would I plea
For open blue many men do flee
Escaping city streets and scree.

T’is true, desire will not free
Me for seasonal mash of peas
Or, divinely sumptuous brie.
As to ocean, such trifles are wee.

Though my head may turn to lea
Beholding forest of birch and fir tree
Then think I of cabin and key
And shirk work and responsibility.

Only God knows. Tomorrow we foresee
Not, nor wish I to decry or decree.
Power, wealth, position I certainly see
Can corrupt king or queen, he or she.

Such dreams provide joy and harmony
Of spirit, whilst Monday I to surgery
Go. Today, green tea I drink, naught whiskey,
For this the period ’pre’ new knee.

Your reflections and corps d’esprit
I so admire. You are “the bee’s knees”
Thank you, your presence; your comments are stellar.
Post-op, I promise a glossy picture of my patella.