Ilene Bauer Poet Rhyme

Attention Smokers

Attention smokers – come on down!
We’ve got vaccines for you!
Just push those older folk aside
And front-line workers, too.

Like cancer patients, you deserve
To jump the Pfizer lines;
Ignore those teachers waiting,
With their “We should come first” whines.

So what if you brought on yourselves
The damage to your lungs?
You need the shots because of it –
Ignore those wagging tongues.

Please thank New Jersey’s leader
For he’s moved you up the list
Despite so many left behind
Who are, quite rightly, pissed.

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Gershon Wolf January 18, 2021 at 12:49 AM Come on, smokers. Come on down. We'll stick a needle... under your gown. ~ OUCH! That'll learn 'em. ~ Mister Pisseder

Caren Krutsinger January 17, 2021 at 1:00 PM The smokers get to go first? Weird. It seems like a juxposition to me.

Carolyn Devonshire January 16, 2021 at 1:10 PM Wow, sounds like things are very unfair in my birth state of NJ. The health care providers have to come first. Did NJ's governor really say smokers deserve to be vaccinated in the first round? That's just not right, Ilene...

Jan Allison January 16, 2021 at 10:58 AM what a travesty no wonder folk are4 up in arms about it:-( hugs jan xx

Rico Leffanta January 16, 2021 at 10:42 AM I smoked 2-4 packs per day for 35-years and couldn't help but laugh! The Constitution claims we are equal, but government continues to insist some are more equal than others. As government can prohibit smokers from lighting up in their own home, it seems unreasonable to me that people are still permitted to wander about sans facemask spreading COVID-19 willynilly! In Hawai'i, the priority is the wealthy, followed by healthcare workers, then wealthy seniors, so I am well back of the queue!

Tom Cunningham January 16, 2021 at 8:11 AM And those that look after ourselves not abusing our bodies get shoved to the back of the queue. The new normal I suppose. Tom

Janice Canerdy January 16, 2021 at 7:42 AM I had not heard about this. So shocking! Ilene, your poem is really well-written, using irony superbly. Janice

Jenna Logan January 16, 2021 at 7:09 AM So many things these days make no sense. It's as if the world has been turned upside down. I always enjoy your spoofs, Ilene.