Monday, November 5, 2012

The Storm is Over...and yet....

We feel....
NUMB, in a way...
Overly agitated...
Worried...
about seemingly simple things...
like.....
GASOLINE....
FOOD....
ELECTRICITY....
things that we CERTAINLY took for granted only 8 days ago....
And now....
CONCERN....DISCONCERTION...
We are relieved, I suppose...
Yet this RELIEF is dressed in a costume of RAIN GEAR and general OUTER WEAR...
just in case of another DISASTER !
This time we will PREPARE !!
And to top it off, we are, somehow, PARALYZED....
when there is SO MUCH to do....
Is this POST TRAUMATIC STRESS SYNDROME ???
or just....
EXHAUSTION ?



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