[ 1034 ][ What Is The New Normal? … 12•8•2020 ]

[ Can We Ever Get Back To The Life That
We All Used To Remember? ]
[ The ‘VID Quarantined Us In March ]
[ Now Look, It Is The 2nd Week Into December ]

[ Something, Anything Close To Being Back To Normal ]
[ Nothing Too Fancy ]
[ But Something Less Formal ]

[ We Have Been Relegated To Get-Togethers Through
Pre-Determined Zoom Calls ]
[ While Getting Seriously Bored ]
[ Staring @ The Same 4 Walls ]

[ Seeing The Same People Day After Day ]
[ We Do & Still Love Each Other ]
[ & We Still Hear What Each Other Wants To Say ]
[ But Oh Brother ]
[ Have We’ve Been Getting In Each Other’s Way ]

[ There Are No New People To Meet ]
[ There Are No New Places To Eat ]

[ It Is Always The Same Kind Of Food ]
[ & We Can’t Leave When Someone Gets In A Mood ]
[ That Ends Up Changing ]
[ Their Behavior & Attitude ]

[ Even When We Do Go Out In Public, We Have To Plan
To Keep The Destinations Quick From ( A ) To ( B ) ]
[ No More Spontaneous Trips To ( D ) Or ( C ) ]
[ It Sucks To Have To Put A Cork In The Spontaneity ]

[ Bottle ]
[ & Ease Off The Throttle ]

[ Then Shift Out Of Drive ]
[ Into Neutral ]
[ So We All Can Stay Alive ]

[ By Not Going Out & Getting The ‘Vid ]
[ So Someone Won’t To Tell The Neighbors ]
[ ( HEY, DID YOU HEAR WHAT SID ) ]
[ ( DID? ) ]

~ The End ~

[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
     ‎    ‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

[ 237 ][ The Norm … 3•20•2021 ]

[ I Have Been So Anxious All Of My Life & I
     Don’t Ever ]
[ Get Any Better ]

[ & Slowly Go Back To The Norm ]
[ But What Does That Look Or Feel Like? ]
[ Is It Always The Calmest Before The Storm? ]

[ Maybe I Will Never Get There ]
[ Maybe I Don’t Know Where ]

[ I Am Supposed To Go ]
[ What Will Be The Form? ]
[ Of What I Don’t Know? ]

[ Confusion Would Be @ The Top Of My List ]
[ I Would Be So Unsure Of What I Might Have Missed ]

[ What I Would Need @ The Time Would Be A Warm Drink
     That Goes Straight To The Soul ]
[ Then Try To Figure Out What Piece I Was Missing
     That Could Make Me Feel Whole ]

[ But Talk Is Very Cheap & Easy To Come By ]
[ When Alot Of People Try To Be Honest ]
[ They Can Only Lie ]


[ A hui hou aku ]
     ‎    ‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]