I’m vaxxed and I’m boosted.
My mask is in place.
My hand sanitizer is tucked
into place.
I still keep a distance
while waiting in line.
And some isolation is
suiting me fine.
I’m coping with COVID
as best as I can.
A lifetime with COVID
was NEVER my plan.
Now I’ve got the COVID booster.
Feeling frisky as a rooster!
This is COVID Number Five.
I think I’ll make it through alive.
1.06 Million Deaths
When it began, they didn’t know
the damage it would do.
They thought it might be likened
to the 1918 flu.
They didn’t know the awful cost…
as COVID took its toll.
They didn’t know the challenge
to the fragile human soul.
Long months have passed.
It waxed and waned.
The death toll keeps on rising.
COVID doesn’t go away –
resilient, and surprising.
So COVID lingers with us…
always waiting for its chance,
waiting, ready to include us
in its own macabre dance.
There are some who plead senility.
But, that’s not what is wrong with me.
I’m very happy to explain:
I’ve COVID Virus of the Brain.
The Emergency’s over
in Washington State.
Who’d a thunk at the start
we’d have such a long wait.
Who’d a thunk how our lives
would be altered and changed.
Who’d a thunk how our habits
would be re-arranged.
Who’d a thunk that a blessing
like safe vaccination
would tear us apart and
disrupt our great nation.
Who’d a thunk we’d be lonely…
missing family or friend.
Who’d a thunk of the sickness—
the lives at an end.
Who’d a thunk?
COVID keeps on killing.
A background noise. A hum.
Our mind no longer notes it.
The numbers make us numb.
I’m getting tired of COVID.
I don’t want to wear a mask.
I don’t want to take precautions.
It’s become an endless task.
I don’t want to hear more protests
‘bout “my freedom” and “my right”.
I just wish we’d work together
so there’d be an end in sight.
I wash my hands and I wipe my cart.
I wear a mask and I stand apart.
I Vax and Boost when they tell me to.
Is there anything else I need to do?
The COVID number’s climbing.
We are all at risk again.
The masks and Vacs don’t stop it.
We can’t seem to rein it in.
We have reached a bitter milestone.
Now, a million folks have died.
Hopes and dreams have changed forever.
COVID’S still not satisfied.
Living the Aging Life 