The Corona Blues (Revisited)
So sick of being stuck at home
Just want to get out and roam
Can go nowhere without a mask
Can’t do my weekly tasks
I got the lowdown Corona blues
Get high all-day
It’s the only way
I can deal with the stress
Of all this mess
I got the lowdown Corona Blues....
Some say it's overblown
That really makes me moan
That statement is so untrue
Follow the rules on what to do
I got the lowdown Corona Blue.
Seems now people don’t listen
As this virus mutates and glistens
Some ignore the fact it exists
Do the wrong thing and take risks
Yeah, I got the lowdown Corona (Covid-19) Blues
Just a little humor to lighten people's moods a little
w.t. Bacon/ASFJr & Fond Kiser
5/23/20 & 5/23/2020
Revisited 12/30/2020
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday!
Let the tables turn;
Let this day return
Again and again;
I feel insane
Without you, my dear;
Our friendship’s sheer.
O, my best friend,
Amity has no end;
Best wishes for you;
Nothing can hurt you,
For you will stay girt
With the love from my heart.
Do not feel morose;
Life, as usual, goes,
But our amity will bring
You back to health and sing
The glories of life,
Banishing age-old strife.
Stay strong, stay strong,
Sing life’s glorious song.
Life is for us, for us all.
Listen to life’s sweet call.
O, chum,
Let us hum
Life’s glory,
Not such flurry.
Aye, the hospital
Must give disposal;
I would say, I do say
To dream of a sunny day.
What can COVID-19 do?
It can never, never touch you.
We can win, this we must defeat;
Get ready for life's dear drumbeat.
There is the sun, there he is, yes, he is
To make the cloud come to the cease.
Happy birthday, happy birthday!
Many happy returns of the day.
He took the corona shot
Then fell on a giant pot
He was swollen and in pain
It almost drove him insane
But cause his body to rot
Running from
the voice of my conscience …
who’s deceiving who
Guilt ridden fear
embedded too dear
one and one still two
Trying to change
what’s inherent
my thoughts both twist and bend
With words falling deaf
death’s coronet
—judgment reprehends
(Dreamsleep: August, 2023)
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I am talking about a time,
When the whole world was in quarantine.
And everyone was stuck somewhere,
With lockdown after lockdown that didn't seem fair.
Then came the demand of everything being online,
With an alarming rate of decline.
As Corona and unemployment soared,
People were sitting at home bored.
Many lost their loved one's life,
Although they tried to thrive.
But this epidemic had set thier lives ablaze,
And everyone was in a state of daze.
When she saw corona attacking her side
She screamed loudly to warn some people
So they could make traditional medecin
Which would help the entire nation
Corona was destroyed , she became Heroine.
May 16/2023
Written for poetry contest sponsored
by Line Gauthier
CORONA VIRUS BLUES
I don’t know about you
What are we supposed to do?
What we’re going through is completely new
The toilet paper has disappeared
What is going on around here?
I’ve got corona virus blues
I don’t know what to do
People are going mad
The world is turning sad
Here we are in isolation
Not a very good sensation
Here we are all getting bored
What are we all waiting for?
Waiting for this all to end
Waiting just to hug a friend
We all have to stick together
This will not last forever
This will all end one day
Then we can all go out and play
I’ve got corona virus blues
I guess you feel it too
We’re doing our best to get through
That is all we can do
The advent of the Corona Virus
Began at the start of two thousand twenties
It seemed like there was little warning
Struggling our way through life as usual
With our normal ups and downs
Then suddenly our promising days ahead
Were suddenly smack dab into Corona
Is it worth all the frustrations
The worldwide loss of life of innocent folks
Such a sad regret for those sad souls
My heart goes out to humanity
Here I lie in Ramona,
sick with the virus Corona.
I feel like hell
and cannot smell,
but glad I don't have pneumonia.
In five days' time, I finally felt fine:
Free from the virus Corona.
Then again it hit,
now I'm sick as Schmidt,
as I lie in bed in Ramona.
You have to admit, the future's looking bright
- with corona seeming to fizzle out a bit, with
cryptocurrency, the metaverse and the futuristic,
kiss-your-sister quality of lab-grown meat to
save the planet - yep, things are looking up.
He passes through the room like a bubble in champagne, unattached, teflon coated, and somehow freer than the rest of us. “Jordies here,” Leong says in an excited whisper.
“Yeah,” I sigh, adjusting my mask, “saw him.” She smiles like a cat behind hers. Leong knows I’m crushing on Jordie and she finds it delicious information which she waves at me like a flag whenever he’s around.
We’re processing in, distancing and passing table to table. Leong can be with me because, as roommates, we’ll be quarantining together. Lisa joins us, she’s back from the restroom. “Jordies here,” she says, bouncing up on her toes to better scan the room.
I don’t look at him but he fills my horizon like a thunderhead. He’s all I can see, even when I’m not looking at him. We reach the end of a row of tables and bam, there he is, six feet away. He says hi, I say hi - I’m very professional as we exchange looping, harmless, euphemisms for settling in for spring semester - then he’s called to the next station.
“If only we weren’t so busy,” I say, holding this fiction in front of me like a shield. “Yeah,” Leong and Lisa say, practically together, and smiling like thieves.
Just when I wanted to... "Lord I beg,
fly me to the Londons Winnipegs."
Out came the Corona, its killer cold !
Said like a devil "you shut up and hold,
we don't need no trouble of the travelling legs."
(01.12.2022)
Corona Omicron what else is coming ?
Will the ruler of the world be viruses ?
men of the science prayers to the God fighting !
Corona Omicron what else is coming ?
we must save life, the human race from sinking.
What's the mystery, Man, God ? solve the cases.
Corona Omicron what else is coming ?
Will the ruler of the world be viruses ?
(01.08.2022)
Lisa and I got our emails the same day.
She read hers first. She made a small
sighing sound, the faintest of protests.
Then broke the news, with a scowl,
“They’re moving classes online “temporarily.”
I don’t want to talk about Corona any more
- I want to scream about it. Maybe we’ll
graduate, in three years, without knowing
what most of our classmates look like -
antithetical to “networking” at university.
I’m lucky, I know - I’m only inconvenienced.
I roam, safely, indoors, impatiently untouched by
adult, real world concerns, like jobs and money.
So I’ll keep my head up and smile like those
glamorous, happy girls in tampon commercials.
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