it was a time

“Time it was, and what a time it was, it was
A time of innocence, A time of confidences
Long ago, it must be, I have a photograph
Preserve your memories; They're all that's left you.” (‘Bookends Theme’/Paul Simon)

“…A time of innocence…a time of confidences…”The soothing slurpy, sloppy, sticky, sugar-coated, satisfaction of being content, the simplest existence of living, the satisfaction of being, of being content! My son Adam, my daughter Dani, in the back yard, during a summer where heat, humidity, and sweat, were no match for the sweet drip, drop of the moment, when a soothing treat, beat any of the tedious trials or tribulations that youth could possibly conceive. The naive naturalness of a nakedness, not just of lack of clothing, but the embrace of what is around us and not on us.

Another maddening day fell to the pages of the history books, on Thursday, May 21, 2020, when Trump paraded around the Ford plant in Michigan, sans a mask, proclaiming he would not provide the Fake News with the satisfaction of HE, being seen wearing a mask; acquiescing to the courtesies of the countless workers complying as would a village; to protect as best they could their co-workers, their co-inhabitants! Lurching around, now, even more, top-heavy because he wears a girdle a corset for a more descriptive term, a binding piece of clothing which for me symbolizes just how this man must be kept held together by whatever means, because soon, his largesse (not for the bestowing of money for others) /but rather his hate, vile, vicious malevolence, will no longer be contained, and an explosion will pollute us all! I feel that time is running faster, than reality permits, and I worry, who will make it to the finish, the EVIL, or the INNOCENT!

“Time, time, time, see what's become of me
While I looked around for my possibilities

I was so hard to please
Don't look around
The leaves are brown
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter.” (‘A Hazy Shade of Winter’/Paul Simon)