In the Life Care Center

KENNETH JONES

March 18, 2020

People Magazine: Heartbreaking Photo Shows Woman, 88, Talking to Her Husband Through Window of Quarantined Nursing Home

In the Life Care Center

Death came to stay

I wanted to share my Love

But they kept me away

What a way to go

Sent away to hide

Peering though a window

To The Other Side

They’re not trying to be mean

They’re just part of the machine

Where money fills the holes

In our empty souls

Now the government told me

Practice social isolation

I don’t care what they sold me

My heart isn’t their nation

So I stand outside my final home

Alone to the bone

Inside the virus is spreading

All that we’ve been dreading

In this world of unknowns

That we’re finally shedding

Or offering a welcome....

KENNETH JONES has published 8 full length collections, hundreds of individual poems, and many independent music projects. A West Chester Poet’s Prize Finalist and 2 time Pushcart nominee, he retired from a 20 year teaching career to become a country lawyer in Gonzales.