A New New Romantic

We are in a new normal
Don’t mix, don’t talk
Make sure you are formal
Get out and walk but don’t talk

I took up a new hobby
To fill the solitary hours
It didn’t involve sitting in a lobby
or planting flowers

I wrote poetry
Many on loves tangled web
Not about grocery or hosiery
And never one about Zagreb

The New Romantics were amazing
There was nothing pedantic
about their phrasing
maybe I can be a New New Romantic