I MISS HUDSON NEWS - Poem

 

I MISS HUDSON NEWS


We cannot travel.
If we do, we must
Test, shove a stick up 
Our noses, and
Then quarantine.
And then test again,
Quarantine again.
So, we just stay home.


I wish I could
Risk the concourse,
See the world.
I could eat 
A whole meal
At Hudson News.

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