The Funny Has Been Edited

The news reads “Chekhov’s summer home in Ukraine destroyed in Russian invasion”

My heart pangs recalling a fondness for his insights and humor now his original transcripts, ash in the wind how amazed I was to discover Chekhov’s true work full of vision and whimsy. A ”Serious Russian Writer” should not be seen as frivolous. Russia edited the funny from his words. new translations of his original transcripts percolate with chuckles and draw light into the gravest experience

Always life as we know it slipping away And then, forgive me thinking about lost transcripts when Thousands of Lives are gone

Perhaps it is a way to keep balance between my simple flicker and the darkness of overwhelming anguish and pain people choking with despair submerged in indigo grief, reach to the thickened air asking “why?”

Always life slipping away

Mankind’s cruelty, ripe with waste, suffocates the hope from our children

Perhaps they will learn a lesson that we have not.