The pandemic impacted many parts of many of our lives. For some, that included what we wear. This Typewriter Rodeo poem celebrates one change that the poet is embracing as permanent.
Still Wearing Pajama Pants
I am giving
2023 all the respect that it has been
giving me
I’m rolling on through
with a lot less FOMO
and a bit less YOLO
and just well
fewer hashtags overall
Neither influencing
nor being influenced
But definitely getting by
And sometimes, maybe, even thriving
But
and I mean this from the depths of my soul
I will being it all all all
in my flannel pajama pants
Because 2023
you have been a lot
And so I’m retiring all the
dry clean only hard pants
of my pre-pandemic life
And giving myself the best self-care
I can muster
All flannel
all the time.
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