Terror<\/p>\n
terror come alive<\/p>\n
vile, scary stuff<\/p>\n
as opposed to fiction<\/p>\n
whatever it be<\/p>\n
for me, is freaky<\/p>\n
the demons and boogeys<\/p>\n
crawling out of the shadows, trees<\/p>\n
are Covid and death<\/p>\n
horrors haunting our breath<\/p>\n
crushing lungs,<\/p>\n
killing loved ones<\/p>\n
have people praying and preying<\/p>\n
living in nightmares<\/p>\n
been hanging out in my mind<\/p>\n
began an ugly reality, unreal<\/p>\n
some October afternoon<\/p>\n
bubbled up on its own<\/p>\n
in the East<\/p>\n
brewing in November<\/p>\n
it came to us<\/p>\n
seething, gasping for air<\/p>\n
like \u201cThe Stand\u201d idea<\/p>\n
from an 11 year old<\/p>\n
in 1957.<\/p>\n
– Sandra Johnson<\/p>\n
(Reference: Stephen King\u2019s novel, The Stand and using words in the last line of his book Danse Macabre.)<\/p>\n
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