I feel dead inside.

[mme_hardy]

 After great pain, a formal feeling comes – 

The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs – 

The stiff Heart questions ‘was it He, that bore,’ 

And ‘Yesterday, or Centuries before’? 

 

The Feet, mechanical, go round – 

A Wooden way 

Of Ground, or Air, or Ought – 

Regardless grown, 

A Quartz contentment, like a stone – 

 

This is the Hour of Lead – 

Remembered, if outlived, 

As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow – 

First – Chill – then Stupor – then the letting go –

Comments

[vom_marlowe]

I am genuinely afraid. For myself. For my Latino neighbors. For my mom at work.

[mme_hardy]

For my two queer adult children, both of whom have preexisting conditions, and both of whom will lose Obamacare as soon as it's repealed.

[lnhammer]

For my child, who is an immigrant, non-white, with a preexisting condition, and (with my wife) Jewish.

[mme_hardy]

(hugs)

[lnhammer]

(hugs)

[mme_hardy]

Oh, God, wasn't equal coverage for mental and physical health mandated only by Obamacare? Shit.