THE HAWK DESK WINDOW 5:00pm
by Joanna Gilman Hyde
Sobey’s Parking Lot
in Barrington Passage
has a yellow sign
with red letters afixed
to Its Central Cart Corral:
“In The Event of An Emergency
Gather Here”
–
Twice Now I Have Thought
of Standing There
To Signify We Are
In The Social Emergency
of Our Existence:
We Should Be Gathering
Our Female 13-17 age group
Our Female 55-64 age group
Our Male 45-54 age group
I like the term “Social Emergency” and I agree, we are in one. I’m curious about the demographics at the end of the poem??
Thank you Jackie for your comment. As for the demographics, I took them straight off Self Organizing Galaxy.
Wow!!