Oh we’re so happy to meet together again!
Some of us bump elbows as if we were businessmen
Some of us stand strangely apart, our bodies
Not knowing how to move
When it comes to greeting old friends
We’ve kissed for fifty years
But now must show reserve.
We sit, two meters apart
The way we were told to do,
But who can hear from so far away?
We need to tune our hearing aids
Or shout “What? What?”
And we have nothing to say
Because nothing is new
Except what we’ve all seen
On our window to the world the tv.
“Wait, I have to tell you all
about the Zoom course
I’ve been taking every day this month.
I forgot what it’s called
But it’s been fascinating
Simply … fascinating.”
And so we go on,
Suddenly very old
Suddenly lonely
In the crowd.