Long Quarantining Poems

It seems clear that the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over,                        ...

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Although I am doing my best to wrap my brains around all of this, there's just no way to dismiss some meaningful things I dearly miss. Quarantining for the purpose of containment of a deadly...

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Lie to men, but not to God,
I'm sorry for those I'll hurt,
For this is what I must write,
I'm not writing because I'm holier than thou,
Neither am I better than thou.
I know I'm better than nothing.

Lie...

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Dear July Fourth,

When I was a kid, I thought so much of you,
And every year I looked forward to your arrival.
To be honest, at the time, the thought of you had
Very little to do with...

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When I groan in my sin-inflicted pain
Languishing in misery brought by disobedience-stain
Sorrowing midst fleshly triumph so void and vain…
God offers to me His grace I’m unworthy to gain
...putting my life into His peace-quarantining domain!

When I...

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When I was a kid, I learned the meaning of balance by walking
railroad tracks.  It was both fun and a self-imposed classroom.
At some point in my life, I learned that isolation was not a...

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Trustworthy, loyal and honest
for friendship do anymore conditions apply
You smile when they call or visit
to see a friendly face, hear a familiar voice
An ear that hears you out
A word that keeps you in
A hand that...

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Upon a midnight arithmetic
While counting my letters from my attic
That moment my soul grew matrix operation
I felt compelled to sniff the calculations.
~
The quantum mechanics laughed
one plus one
And the particle physics never accounting
The multiplex econometric estimating
My...

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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...

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Once again we’re wedged in a wrinkle
of time in our lives; a wrinkle that can’t
be so easily ironed out and pressed away.
Yet the ironing board of solutions remain up
and challenging steam continues to gush out;
however,...

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We’re busy all day long with studying and chapter summaries,
we’re stuck in quarantine. Luckily, I like my roommate's company.

We know that we have work to do as prep for upcoming classes,
but we know that it...

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An allotted announcement;
Ben’s brother balances
Carefully, carrying containers
Designated “Dogma Delivery.”
Eventually, everyone 
Finds frog-gy feelings for
Generously generated
Hair-raising hijinks.
Incoherent ideas incur. 
Jeremiah jumps, jolting,
Kicking kleptomaniacs,
Lashing lawlessness.
Money monkeys make
Notorious nincompoops. 
Obscure obligations often 
Poisons pathetic passion!
Quarantining qualified
Representatives,
Shrivels support,
Transforming truth-
Unilaterally,...

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"just wear a mask."
this is only happening in China
no need to get all scared right now
we'll be perfectly fine, duh

"just wear a mask."
i'm so happy they're quarantining us
a week off school for us
really, no need...

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(sung to the tune of Oh, Tannenbaum)

Oh, Amazon, oh Amazon
You give my life such meaning
For letting me buy all my gifts
While safely quarantining.

At birthday time or Chanukah
(Which makes it more ironica)
Oh, Amazon, oh Amazon
My purchasing’s...

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Controlling the source of infection
   By Disinfecting the place infected
       Quarantining every infected person
           
Cutting off the...

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