Best sometimes to ignore
what’s going on in my head
the joyful pops of static
and step off the curb
with the thousands who breathe
through paper face masks
the U-boats so close to shore
a chorus girl in a Miami penthouse
could see men die in flaming oil
Howie Good, a journalism professr at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of 19 print and digital poetry chapbooks, including most recently Half-Life and Other Poems from Ronin Press.
