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Five Card Story: The First Whiteboard I've Seen in Months
a Five Card Flickr story by M.E. O'Neill created Jan 29 2021, 11:43:19 pm. Create a new one!
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The handwritten menu on the wall is the first white board I’ve seen in months. This was supposed to be temporary—two weeks of class in my PJ’s, ordering DoorDash instead of going out, taking walks on my lunch. In March, I trekked through the suburbs, saw signs sprout from the lawns of McMansions: “Thank you essential workers!”
Winter winds knocked them down. Our heroes discarded, like toys we’ve grown bored of. Now I wait for my takeout, ice still clinging to my boots, and behind my mask I frown at the indoor diners. I want to laugh like them; I want to ride a crowded subway, I want to sit in a packed auditorium while a man lectures onstage, I want to drop overpriced popcorn on a sticky theater floor. I want the world to open like a flower does in spring, but this interminable winter isn’t over yet.
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