Cracks

Words to describe North America: worried, tumultuous, fevered, agonized, enraged, weary. *

Some weeks are like that.

Last week. For example.

Probably this week, too.

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Some weeks, you know you're fragile. Cracks appear.

Some weeks, you can hold it together.

Like this.

Some weeks, you can't. And that's OK, too.

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*Are we in North America lucky? Or perhaps, "lucky"?
We're still here.
We have not yet been swept away in flash floods, mudslides, wars.
Our homes aren't flooded or crumbled.
I acknowledge our affluence.