{"id":14916,"date":"2026-03-16T12:48:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T02:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/?p=14916"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T02:48:23","slug":"face-masks-a-poem-by-bill-kochman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/face-masks-a-poem-by-bill-kochman\/","title":{"rendered":"FACE MASKS — a poem and song by BBB"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

#Poetry #Poem<\/p>\n

FACE MASKS<\/p>\n

by Bill Kochman<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Poetry<\/a><\/p>\n

04-13-2023<\/p>\n

We wore masks for almost three years,
\nYet some folks are still filled with fears.
\nYes, I see them whenever I venture out,
\nIt really makes me just want to shout.<\/p>\n

But it would probably be to no avail,
\nTheir minds are made up, you can tell.
\nStill afraid they might catch that thing,
\nSo a face mask they will always bring.<\/p>\n

Some folks are old and no longer strong,
\nSo they may need to take a mask along.
\nBut so many others still cover their face,
\nWell I guess they’re doing it, just in case.<\/p>\n

But as for me, I really hate to put one on,
\nSo I won’t do it unless I am forced upon.
\nSome places require us to wear one here,
\nWill we still be doing it in another year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

#Poetry #Poem FACE MASKS by Bill Kochman https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Poetry 04-13-2023 We wore masks for almost three years, Yet some folks are still filled with fears. Yes, I see them whenever I venture out, It really makes me just want to shout. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4772,3],"tags":[20,21,22,1243,37,38,4656,4658,389,4660,4661,44,4657,139,135,134,30,4659],"class_list":["post-14916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-poetry","tag-bill-kochman","tag-bills-bible-basics","tag-christian","tag-control","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-face-masks","tag-fauci","tag-fear","tag-fears","tag-fright","tag-masks","tag-n95","tag-original","tag-poem","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-wuhan"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38221,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14916\/revisions\/38221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}