Paranoid

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rt doing what-ifs upon what-ifs and then my final fever dream has me dead and my kids alone And some think this is paranoid because I can wear a mask and be careful and use sanitizer but isn’t there always a risk, at least right now, in my spot? Parks opened and I don’t want to see all the people attempting to stay apart but so wanting to come together and I don’t get how we are opening a single thing for anyone right now since we are the 47th largest state with the 2nd most cases and every day the numbers trend up</p><p id="f104">I want it to end, too, but I also have to outlive it If I have to, I will outrun it Anything to get past it or around it, but not through it So maybe I am paranoid when I am wiping down packaging inside of packaging and swabbing my mail after it sleeps in a box for three days, but what if I’m not?

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What if the risk is not worth taking, at least not for me, as I lower myself into the same chair I’ve been sitting in for six weeks staring into this screen gently screaming to get out</p><p id="5b4c">© <a href="undefined">Jonathan Greene</a> 2020</p><p id="9af2">If you liked this, you might like this as well:</p><div id="7fad" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/tipping-point-79ed32978047"> <div> <div> <h2>Tipping Point</h2> <div><h3>A Poem</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*Iiv8fiZ6sbhsLqew)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

A Poem

I have no way of knowing whether my paranoid demeanor in relation to this virus is warranted or not I read two minutes a day and the numbers are bad, horrendously terrible where I am, so I stay in, behind glass and wait for it to pass But with no way of knowing when that will be and others scratching and clawing to get out I’m left feeling paranoid

I guess I could go out, but even when I think of it I start doing what-ifs upon what-ifs and then my final fever dream has me dead and my kids alone And some think this is paranoid because I can wear a mask and be careful and use sanitizer but isn’t there always a risk, at least right now, in my spot? Parks opened and I don’t want to see all the people attempting to stay apart but so wanting to come together and I don’t get how we are opening a single thing for anyone right now since we are the 47th largest state with the 2nd most cases and every day the numbers trend up

I want it to end, too, but I also have to outlive it If I have to, I will outrun it Anything to get past it or around it, but not through it So maybe I am paranoid when I am wiping down packaging inside of packaging and swabbing my mail after it sleeps in a box for three days, but what if I’m not? What if the risk is not worth taking, at least not for me, as I lower myself into the same chair I’ve been sitting in for six weeks staring into this screen gently screaming to get out

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