Monday, May 26, 2025

Prayer for Uninteresting Times

 

Send me a slow news day,

a quiet, subdued day,

in which nothing much happens of note,

just the passing of time,

the consumption of wine,

and a re-run of Murder, She Wrote.


Grant me a no news day,

a spare-me-your-views day,

in which nothing much happens at all—

a few hours together,

some regional weather,

a day we can barely recall.

--Brian Bilston

[Photo of White Rocks in Wallingford, VT].



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