It Smacks of Science Fiction

Written by Gail DeBole on July 2, 2020 Updated on July 4, 2020 Yet another Coronavirus poem... Songwriters are composing original tunes. Poets are writing to cope with the gloom. Masks on our faces. Dread in our hearts. Please don’t slip up and go back to the start. Germaphobes can laugh and shake their heads. Knowing all along they were right instead. Egg on our faces. Feet in our mouths. Regretting every germ-joke ever allowed. Politicians caring for hours on air. News celebrities asking the questions that care. CDC alerts that change by the day. So much to do, and so much to say. Subways and buses are so clean they squeak. Tarmacs for airplanes are on a clean-streak. Medical people checking fevers and such You won’t pass through if your temp is too much. The invisible monster wafts through the air. It settles in victims and does not care That it hurts humans. It’s really quite fair Spreading drama equally and ignoring prayer. People worry when they go to a store. What will greet them as they walk in the door? The whole world is worried. The whole world is scared. And those who are not are common-sense bare.