From Picture to Page: Wayside

Photo from Friday commute. Starting to get tired from writing over and over about the one topic dominating my mind. Go figure.

Wayside

Empty barrels
escape curb.

What will be
inside next week?

Masks come
on Monday.

How long will
pandemic wait

until we
are ready,

five more
minutes please

last-second
scrub down.

Most still walk
faces out,

house parties
prosper.

I trudge, dirty
plague bird,

nigh-end
sign missing.