They’re Coming to Take Me Away

Meryl Baer
New Writers Welcome
3 min readOct 1, 2021

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Let me out! Let me out!

I don’t know when they’re coming to take me away, but unfortunately, it will probably be sooner rather than later. I am not sure who they are — anonymous people in white suits? My family? The police? Friends? — whoever they are, they are coming.

I am not sure where they will take me or what will happen to me. Will I be confined to my home? Installed in a locked-down facility? Signed into a hospital? Dropped on…

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Meryl Baer
New Writers Welcome

The shore is home. Folks visit in summer, but no one stops by in winter, so I write.