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Wednesday, January 27, 2021

BEYOND PANDEMIC FATIGUE

by George Salamon




"The first step is to understand that it's not just about exhaustion or tiredness or depleting a mental resource.” —David Badre, “How we can deal with 'pandemic fatigue,’”  Scientific American, January 24, 2021


Grief has made himself
at home inside of us, he
lives in our house, he
will depart eventually,
leaving behind a piece
of himself, the stuff of
future conversation.
Not everything can
be dealt with or gotten
over, no matter how
many steps the
the program has.

George Salamon contributes some of his Un-American attitudes to The Asses of Parnassus, One Sentence Poems, Dissident Voice and The New Verse News from America's heartland, St. Louis, MO.