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Upon Release from Lockdown
But we keep a-comin’. We’re the people that live.
-Ma Joad, The Grapes of Wrath
With friends for lunch after two dreary months
How we looked forward to it! The neon café
Along the interstate, tourists and truckers
All waiting to be seated – how many, sir?
But how desolate it is in the dimness
Almost empty - half the furniture gone
No merriment, no hum of activity
One masked server, flickering about like a ghost
The road out past the empty parking lot
Leads to California. Maybe we should go
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