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Stanley H. Barkan

SHPILKES poem by Stanley H. Barkan, USA

18 Settembre 2020

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SHPILKES

After twelve weeks of sheltered in place / quarantined, because of the

Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times,” now in the form

of Covid -19, the virus borne out of Wuhan, my wife Bebe is suffering

from advanced shpilkes. Every day she says, “When is this going to end?!

Like all Jewish women, she loves shopping, so much so, that no matter

how bad her back pain is, and she’s shopping, it immediately disappears.

So, now deprived for so long, she cleans out her clothes closet, finds an

old blouse and skirt, doesn’t recall when she wore them before, thus

it’s like a replacement for shopping. Yesterday, she put on the old/new

blouse and skirt, and went looking for more in the now cleaned-up closet.

For the rest of yesterday, she didn’t seem to be suffering too much from

shpilkes, but, every once in a while, she would cry out, “Dr. Kervorkian,

where are you when I need you?!” And so it goes when a woman is deprived

of Century 21, Nordstrom’s Off the Rack, Sachs Off Fifth, and other boutiques.

For now, Bebe’s closet will have to do, a short respite for her shpilkes.

—Stanley H. Barkan

From a new collection in process, Fifteeners,

after the 15-line poems in William Heyen’s Vehicles (2020)

...she puts on the old/new blouse and skirt...

...she puts on the old/new blouse and skirt...

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