As COVID-19 has spread around the world, it has led to changes in our way of life that many have begun calling the “new normal”. That was the inspiration for this Typewriter Rodeo poem.
The New Normal
It’s panic buying on Amazon
It’s cheering that coveted curbside delivery time
It’s homemade facemasks
It’s more neighborhood walks
More slowing down
More reaching out to family
And friends
Than ever before
It’s virtual game nights & happy hours
It’s jigsaw puzzles and board games
It’s hoping everyone you know
And they know
Is safe and healthy
It’s being creative
It’s worrying about money and meals
Like you’d only heard of
From grandparents
It’s making lists
Of how long this food will last
Just in case
It’s wondering what will substitute
For toilet paper
It’s learning or re-learning
To freeze and can food
Garden and plant
It is fear, yes,
But it is also hope
And perhaps a much-needed
Reset —
Because here we are
Still laughing, loving, living
Perhaps at a distance
But sometimes it takes a little distance
To see
What matters.
Produced by Laura Rice.
