The Covid Cafe # 23 Unlike the Characters
Probably best if spoken aloud
Unlike the characters
in memory
from my life
or from a novel
or from Mr. Shakespeare
or from history or opera
unlike them too many people
who used to be
who used to be
will become victims of Covid
Husbands and wives
someones lover who will
never
never
never
be held again in this life
only held in the faintest of memory
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When we hear a certain
song whether it’s
Clyde Mcphatter singing The Bells of St Marys
or Dive Bar by Garth Brooks and Blake Shelton
or the last movement of Beethoven’s 9th
or-
you see the person who no longer lives and-
when we remember a certain place
sand shore sun
sand shore sun
when we remember a certain place
a restaurant meal
sand shore sun
sand shore sun
mountain trails
her walking ahead of you on the sidewalk
he driving away in the moonlight
sand shore sun
sand shore sun
all that’s left are the memories
all that’s left are
all that’s left
all that’s left are the memories
memories
memories
The lovers I remember
gone and left
left and gone
some parts of a century ago
when do these memories leave
do they stay until I go
do they stay until I go