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Monday, March 8, 2021

Shecession (She-Recession) Tanka

One Hundred Eighty-Seventh Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary
written in response to the "shecession (she-recession)" 

in her eyes
the thousand-yard stare ...
once a manager
now the Commander-In-Chief
with kids fighting in quarantine