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#982321 added April 29, 2020 at 4:49pm
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April 29: poem embedding a quoted phrase - New Normal
New Normal

We have been reborn!
"We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human." ~ 12

We are babies
pushed naked and squalling
into a bright
mew world.

We can't go back--
before the COVID-19 pandemic,
before the social distancing,
before the stay in place quarantines--
anymore than we can crawl
back into our mother's wombs.

We must move forward
into this new normal,
into this new reality,
while praying for the best.


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Footnotes
1  Charles Eisenstein
2  https://www.azquotes.com/author/19099-Charles_Eisenstein
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