Tag: covid

Eleven hundred people died.

Two million got the vaccine.

And many more threw off their masks

for the Spring Break Party Scene.

I follow with alacrity

the CDC’s insistence:

Wash your hands.

Wear your mask.

And keep your social distance.

I’ve dusted and oiled

 and what is more

I’ve even mopped

 the kitchen floor.

Can’t get a refreshing drop to drink.

It’s wet from here

to the kitchen sink.

Before, with COVID,

behind my mask,

I could ignore

every household task!

Now I am busy,

doing every chore,

before my company

comes through the door.

I’ve COVID virus of the Brain.

It’s serious and I must explain

that though the up-turn has begun

a lot of damage is already done.

I hardly remember what life was like

before the Virus came.

But this I clearly understand:

Life will never again be the same.

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Fifteen hundred died last night.

Five hundred thirty thousand are gone.

The virus is still with us.

The death toll marches on.

525,000 dead.

The numbers keep on growing.

The beat of death continues.

Sometimes rising.  Sometimes slowing.

The Govs are op’ning up their states.

They’re over all this fuss!

The Govs are done with the Virus.

But, it’s not done with us.

The trend is heading downward–

daily death rate’s not so high.

But, still for 1300, yesterday was

their time to die.