This Week in Poetry, Math, and Remembering

World Poetry Day went by

without acknowledgement

   even to myself

but for that internal nod

           hello slacker

Instead I dreamed of budgets

       & spreadsheets

flipped through old photos

wondered what gaslighting means

             over black coffee

Mama Zen asked the Real Toads: “Think back over the past week. What have you observed that was odd, unusual, or just plain weird? Tell me about it in 60 words or less.”