Dead By Morning

By morning, that's all the time I got, shot dead in the head by a master on the microphone jamming out the jams for all my homes. Like tik, tok, tickity tok, rock the clock before I drop dead from run'n from the cop. What's my crime to tell the time, from time to time, rhyme a joke at the state line, runin back to X makes me a felon for yell'n. Dude gotta cough... it must be the virus, dis the masses, running in panic, through the isle nocking down goods and breaking glasses. People dy'n, children cryin', cause I was ly'n, rhymn' a joke, hoax can't take a joke Now I just wanna get home, police chasing me, They think a plague is festering me, infecting everyone passing me. They won't stop chasing me. Home! Home at last, it's 6 AM and time to crash. Halt! Halt right there, it's 6 po pos, put your hands in the air. Bang! I'm gone. Don't fear the virus. by Martin Braun 3/13/20 ========================= A CORONAVIRUS patient in Kentucky has been placed under 24/7 armed guard after refusing to self-isolate. Gov. Andy Beshear said the state had to make the unusual move to protect others nearby. Deputies are now stationed outside the 53-year-old man's house around-the-clock in Nelson County. "It's a step I hoped I never had to take, but we can't allow one person who we know has this virus to refuse to protect their neighbors," Gov. Beshear told reporters. The unidentified man is the only coronavirus patient in the county, and officials were worried that he could infect others. A total of 18 people have tested positive in Kentucky. The patient had left the hospital without permission, according to TV station WDRB. "We've got to make sure that people who have tested positive, that we know could be spreading the virus, and simply refuse to do the right thing, do the right thing," the governor said, according to the Herald Leader (HL). County Judge-Executive Dean Watts declared a state of emergency and invoked an obscure statute to allow the forced self-quarantine, the newspaper reported. The state is bracing for the possibility of many more positive cases, and the governor said hospitals should be prepared for that. "The fact is we need all the capacity we can to deal with the cases we're going to see," Beshear said, according to the HL. "... We want to make sure we have the resources to help every single one of these people." https://www.the-sun.com/news/539494/coronavirus-kentucky-patient-self-isolate-armed-guard/