Tag: covid

American Plaint

I’m tired of news of COVID.

It’s just all so Yesterday.

I want to go to bars and games….

see my pals and play.

I’m tired of talk of migrants

and mayhem at the border.

I’m tired of shooting violence

with the threat to law and order.

I’m tired of all this climate change…

crazy weather gone astray.

And the bridges, buildings, streets’ collapse –

that plague us ev’ry day.

I’m tired of talk of voter fraud

with corruption far and near.

I want to sit and watch TV

and drink a nice, cold beer.

Independence Day

July 4, 2021

Washington State Re-Opens

They say this Celebration

marks the End of the COVID Fear.

They say if you get the new Vaccine,

you face a Bright New Year.

They say for some,

it’s getting worse.

For most of us,

we’ve passed the Curse.

They say our lives

will all be changed…

our “normal” patterns

re-arranged…

We mourn:  Six hundred thousand dead.

But, now we see there’s life ahead.

We had a look at the face of death.

Now we’re grateful for our life and breath.

Where did all the people go?

Before the Pandemic,

there were drivers and clerks.

There seemed to be people

to show up for work.

But now it’s all diff’rent.

No one can be found

to fill all the jobs

that are dangling around.

There aren’t enough nurses

or drivers of trucks.

There aren’t enough tellers

to pass out the bucks.

There aren’t enough firemen

to put out the fire.

There aren’t policemen

for something that’s dire.

There aren’t enough teachers

to meet with the class.

There aren’t enough waiters

to fill up your glass.

There aren’t enough pilots to

fly the airplanes.

There aren’t enough washers

to clean window panes.

There used to be people

so where did they go?

A Pandemic myst’ry.

No one seems to know.