Back in 2007
I read in the books
It was bad to isolate
It makes things much worse
Better get out there
Meet people make friends
Best thing for your health
So I made myself
Enough years went by
I forgot what it was like
To want to be left alone
I remember now
So I just pretend
This is what I want
Watching long movies
Reading stacks of books
Sleeping for 12 hour stretches
It is not so bad
Just a way to pass the time
I find I like it
Not like 13 years ago
When I did all the same things
But I didn’t choose
What I did or didn’t do
My depression did
Poems of Pandemic Days by Alice Curley 