'AppleSystem Font Poem' by Gerard Sarnat

Firing up Apple Pay anticipating

first time in any grocery store

in more than fifteen months,

I fulfill pipe dream of picking

own just-ripe juicy produce,

mostly on-sale food-stuffs,

but am sad that my fave

salad bar is (of course)

looong gone: saying

Hello! to old-friend

checkers, they tell

tell me that buffet

became a distant

but fond memory

which kept away

many doc visits.

Copyright. Gerard Sarnat.

Gerard Sarnat MD’s won San Francisco Poetry’s Contest, Poetry in Arts First Place Award/Dorfman Prizes. Nominated for Pushcarts/Best of Net Awards, Gerry’s published in Hong Kong Review, Tokyo Journal, Buddhist Review, Gargoyle, Main Street Rag, New Delta Review, Arkansas Review, Hamilton-Stone Review, New Haven Institute, Texas Review, Vonnegut Journal, Brooklyn Review, SF Magazine, LA Review, NY Times plus by Harvard, Stanford, Dartmouth, Penn, Chicago, Columbia presses. He’s authored collections Homeless Chronicles, Disputes, 17s, Melting Ice King. Stanford professor/healthcare CEO, Gerry’s built/staffed clinics for the marginalized, devoted energy/resources toward climate justice on Climate-Action-Now’s board. Married since 1969, Gerry has nine grand/kids. gerardsarnat.com