The Brave and Reckless Blog posted a little poem I wrote for one of their prompts. It’s called Sleep the Sleep of the Dead and it was prompted by that wonderful song Roland Orzabal of Tears for Fears wrote and Gary Jules covered, Mad World.
Diligent readers may remember Brave and Reckless posted a COVID-19 poem of mine back in the Spring when I figured the pandemic would be contained in the States within three or four months. How naïve I was.
Thanks, Christine!
About Bartholomew Barker
Bartholomew Barker is an organizer of Living Poetry, a collection of poets in the Triangle region of North Carolina where he has hosted a monthly feedback workshop for more than decade. His first poetry collection, Wednesday Night Regular, written in and about strip clubs, was published in 2013. His second, Milkshakes and Chilidogs, a chapbook of food inspired poetry was served in 2017. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2021. Born and raised in Ohio, studied in Chicago, he worked in Connecticut for nearly twenty years before moving to Hillsborough where he lives and writes poetry.
Bartholomew Barker, Poet 
Congratulations and well done!
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Thanks! Glad you liked it.
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Congratulations. You set a high bar for us. I really like this poem. So fitting now that we are in month sixty-teen, or whatever it is.
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Thanks. The months all seem to run together anymore.
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Woo hoo! :)
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Hell yeah!
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:)
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