Unseen and too late
Then man and nature unite -
Smile for life goes on
The lockdown is a knock down.
We can all run back out there!
So we are dancing in the streets.
I drive to town to dance with people.
Yay, for the Covid heroes!
I yell it too, only more loudly.
This strange person I do not know glares at me.
My first instinct is to stick out my tongue.
Really mature my inner voice chides me.
Yay, for the Covid heroes!
Now I get it. It is annoying to be mimicked.
This yell from my least favorite neighbor.
She gallops over to see what I am about.
Going to the store, I tell her. Better be off.
Yay, for the Covid heroes!
I agree they should be revered and honored.
Cherished and lifted onto pedestals.
I have the utmost respect for what they have done.
But it is driving me insane that we are all yelling the same five words.
Yay, for the Covid heroes!
Daddy’s gone a hunting
Mommy’s out there too
Looking for job with a broken left shoe
No one is hiring anyone
The rent is way overdo
The world is upside down
Pandemic has brought flu
Rumors turn quite serious
What’s a person to do?
It surely is not possible
We will have to be social distanced
Until two thousand twenty-two
I do not feel this is living
How about you?
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new york has it bad
her quadzillions of people
social distance ha
new York is so sad
one step equals meeting
most will not wear mask
Thursday March 12th, 2020
The day before Spring break at school.
Three of us take forty-two sixty graders all over a college campus.
They are thrilled to be out of school.
We are all looking forward to tomorrow- Friday the 13th
Because it is the last day of school before spring break.
Thursday March 12th, 2020
A phone call comes in at five-thirty p.m.
School is cancelled tomorrow.
We get an extra day for spring break!
I rejoice when I get the call.
I am sure the students were dancing!
Thursday March 12th, 2020
One month ago today.
We left school that day blissfully unaware
That day would be our last day of physical school this school year.
Standardized testing has been cancelled.
Prom and graduation cancelled.
Thursday March 12th, 2020
A day that we had no idea that birthday parties would be cancelled.
Easter church services would be cancelled.
Two hundred page work packets would be mailed to students.
School employees would have to learn computer programs to go online.
Parents would lose their jobs.
Stores, restaurants, bars, clubs would be closed up.
The beginning of The Twilight Zone.
We have a cure! The youngest, cutest, most female of female scientists yelled.
The other ones rolled their eyes and made fun of her.
She was a woman after all and short.
Short people cannot be taken seriously.
I do! I do! She screamed and yelled. Step up! Let me inoculate you!
Get the rats! An old one screamed. Inject them. They are going to die anyway.
Loud snickering. Everyone else. They hated their token woman.
The boss told her to pipe down and act more lady-like.
At the end of the day she had inoculated herself
And the rats and the goldfish.
They were the only ones in the lab
Who survived the CV19 that day.
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