RDP SATURDAY: NOMAD
I travel the same gray path
from my front door
to my car
to the train that takes me to work.
From the station
it’s few steps to where I work
below the sidewalks, cracked with hard use
under the streets bumpy and worn
where 12 elephants walked shoulder to shoulder
just above my head
in 1903.
We are all just ghosts
from different times
haunting 2nd Avenue.
Photo A.M. Moscoso
Dear Krampus
Why wait until Christmas to pay us a visit?
As you know, we are dealing with Covid-19 and some of us are acting responsibly.
Some of us were laid off from work but we aren’t reaching for guns and ropes and threating elected officials to let us get back to getting tattoos and facials and expecting restaurant staff to risk their lives to serve us food and coffee and cheesecake-OR ELSE.
We aren’t crowding to beaches because we might pick up a virus that could kill someone who lives next door to us, or someone in our family.
However some of us are doing ALL of those things- and like every spoiled brat you have ever stuffed into a sack people are doing these things because they don’t want to be told ” No” and the temper tantrums that are being thrown could be more serious then those in the past.
Given that you have a bumper crop of brats of all sizes and ages you might want to start early this year. I wouldn’t want you to get frazzled.
Sincerely Yours
AMM
RDP Sunday –FRAZZLED
RDP Thursday – LONELY
Last Thursday I was laid off from work- so on Friday I took Governor Inslee’s stay at home orders to heart.
I started out last Friday under my first official ‘ Day 1 ‘ under Stay At Home orders.
Until that Thursday I had been deemed part of an the Essential Work force and was taking a train in and out of Seattle. Because of that I worked under the assumption I was dealing with people who carried the contagion or that I was carrying it myself- so I took all of the guidelines for being out in public very seriously.
However, because I didn’t fall into a category to be tested I wasn’t sure if I had the Coronavirus- or if what had bothered me for a few weeks back in February were my allergies or as I felt- I had a touch of the flu.
I’m good about getting flu shots so when I felt a little under the weather I thought maybe what I had been vaccinated against was trying to get me, but couldn’t get a grip on me ( take that ya nasty bug! )
My nose wouldn’t stop running ( I’m serious, it was like a faucet that wouldn’t stop running and if I put my head down or looked down- it was embarrassing. It was like incontinence of the face.) All I wanted to do was sleep and food had lost all of it’s magic for me. It all tasted so blah. I thought it was because of my allergies.
During that time I would be at work going about my business or at home watching tv and then all of the sudden I would feel like I was burning up.
Allergies-maybe menopause? Didn’t know. I just popped some Ibuprofen opened a window put on a tee-shirt and within twenty minutes I felt fine- but it would happen again a few days later and that went on for almost two weeks.
The thing is, my allergies have never had symptoms like that before and I never got hot flashes tied to my menopause symptoms during the day.
But what else could it have been?
I still don’t know.
So within this last week felt like I got to hit the reset button and now I can pay attention to my health.
I feel like Dr Frankenstein- doing experiments in secret with Lucifer looking over my shoulder( actually he does ), I have a print of Lucifer by Van Stuck hanging above my fireplace and I write under it.
The monster I am trying to create? Am I experimenting on myself?
We’ll see. I’ll probably end up writing about it.
The problem is, my worst imaginings are getting a run for their money right now.
Lucifer and Co
Photo By A.M. Moscoso
RDP Tuesday – DELICATE
“Cat and Wasp”
Muramasa Kudo
A cat’s paw
the hum of a bee
delicate
A cat’s claw
the sting of a bee
such a small thing can bring the mightiest of us
to our knees.