Caifornia's Defeat Ups and Downs

California’s hospitals are filling up, nurses getting sick Thanksgiving has given us more than pumpkin pies Young and arrogant, young and unaware Elderly desperate visiting old friends Fearful it might be for many all of their final ends It was for some though it should not have been So Christmas’s coming -- will people connect with the Divine Or with Macy’s and Penney’s and Amazon Prime Fixed in their homes with children playing computer games As jailed husbands and wives are fighting with too much time Doctors and families crying out on these unhappy days Plague or virus a negative life that creates dark ways so many people getting sick nearby rewrote a little sigh partical rhyming