Tuesday, December 01, 2020

A Blursday Poem for Weekly Scriblings -- Every day is Blursday

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(My Day today 'virtually')
(59F and Raining at 5AM) 
(I'll be hanging out at the 
Blue Dot--another long Day)

Days of the Week;
 my how we change (not)

Every day is Blursday 
For nineteen years 
I've been 
calling them Saturday 
Except for Sundays 

Nineteen years and three months
ago 
I retired from twenty-two years 
of teaching 
Since for all that time I've been
thinking of them as Saturdays 
I have to mark the calendar
like a prisoner does
to keep the days straight 

But now the COVID has come
along.  A thief in the night 
It kills and maims, you name  

So we all hide 
Hide when we've nothing pressing 
hiding in our homes 
hiding our faces when we're out 
trying to keep the monster Corona virus 
from spreading  
Monotony 
Worse than all Saturdays is this 
new Blursday  


A writer's note:
Before teaching my working life had started:
1) three years - factory work 
2) five years - U.S. Army
3) nineteen - Aerospace Engineer at  NASA. 
(I finished college part time, eleven years, three degrees, while at NASA)
 _ _ _ _ 

 - Prose Poem and top Photo Copyright, Jimmiehov 2020, All Rights Reserved 
 - I am linked with Magaly Guerrero* for her neat prompt and bottom picture at Weekday Scribblings # 48 https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2020/12/weekly-scribblings-48-words-of.html?m=1
 - I chose 2. Blursday, see note below, as a prompt word/idea for this writing
  - NOTE:  **Magaly "invite(d) us to write new poetry or prose where the central theme revolves around one or more of the following five words:  
 1. Allyship (n. active support for the rights of a minority or marginalized group without being a member of it),  
2. Blursday  (n. a day of the week that is indistinguishable from any other),  
3. Covidiot (n. a person who disobeys guidelines designed to prevent the spread of Covid-19),  
4. Doomscrolling (n. the action of compulsively scrolling through social media or news feeds which relate bad news),  
5. Virtue-signalling (n.  the public expression of opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one’s good character or the moral correctness of one’s position on a particular issue)." 
 - The list of her new "words' grew lomger overnight, see them all at the link above 

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11 Comments:

At Wednesday, December 02, 2020 6:02:00 AM, Blogger Kim M. Russell said...

I know that feeling, Jim!

 
At Wednesday, December 02, 2020 8:16:00 AM, Blogger Rosemary Nissen-Wade said...

You had me at that wonderful first line.

 
At Wednesday, December 02, 2020 8:44:00 AM, Blogger Helen said...

Color my world (color my dot) ... my dot is green today. Happy Blursday.

 
At Wednesday, December 02, 2020 10:40:00 AM, Blogger Magaly Guerrero said...

I think you've captured the Blursday feeling so well, Jim. In the past, I always knew what day it was. After COVID, I find myself having to look at the calendar more and more and more...

 
At Wednesday, December 02, 2020 11:57:00 AM, Blogger Lisa said...

Monotony is the worst, and it steals days. I feel for my son, in his mid-20s and nowhere to go, nothing to do, no one to do things with. It's very depressing for him.
With your busy past a normal retirement must have been nice, but you sound like the kind who gets bored and stir crazy now!

 
At Wednesday, December 02, 2020 11:59:00 AM, Blogger Priscilla King said...

I've always liked and looked forward to Saturdays. I can relate to the "every day is Blursday" feeling though.

 
At Wednesday, December 02, 2020 2:37:00 PM, Blogger indybev said...

The sameness of blursdays is hypnotic, is it not? Were it not for my pill dispenser, I'd not know which day of the week it is!

 
At Wednesday, December 02, 2020 4:23:00 PM, Blogger Old Egg said...

Recognising Blursday may well save your life as those that deny everything pretend Covid will not affect them, whereas mask and distance will no doubt see you through.

 
At Thursday, December 03, 2020 2:13:00 AM, Blogger Gillena Cox said...

Ah Blursday... its a stuck in yersterday/today kind of day
Nice write Jim
Happy you dropped by to read mine

 
At Thursday, December 03, 2020 2:14:00 AM, Blogger Gillena Cox said...

Much💜love

 
At Friday, December 04, 2020 9:49:00 PM, Blogger Margaret said...

AS long as we are with the ones we love -

 

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