Although we got our second shot (Pfizer, Bellevue,
10:30 AM yesterday) I am entirely aware that getting
your shot first or second and how you got it (persistence)
and the dysfunctional system of getting a shot
is not Good Subject Matter for conversation, or even
this poem. Neither are symptoms afterwards
(tired etc.) And yet EVERYONE is talking about When
They Did or Did Not Get the Vaccine, which one,
Symptoms the Next Day et al. When Noah
was a baby people would
discuss Good Snacks (apple slices, carrot sticks)
ad infinitum and although the shot is More Important
than snacks, it’s still not good subject matter, not
as good, anyway, as the Volunteer Nurse from a small
town in Maryland who knows the whole medley of
Sam Cooke songs but didn’t have time to sing them
in the waiting room, or the woman who took my Hamantaschen cookies
I brought to Bellevue as a gift and said These Look OK I guess.
(Happy Purim)
Did the volunteer nurse who knows all the Sam Cooke songs see "One Night in Miami"?