Coronavirus Blues
I wrote this poem on March 14, 2020, the day that New York Govenor Andrew Cuomo announced the state's first confirmed coronavirus-related death: an 82-year-old women in New York City (Manhattan) who suffered from emphysema. That same day coronavirus cases topped 152,000 worldwide, with 5,700 deaths worldwide. Little did we know what we were in for. . .
Coronavirus Blues
Crazy COVID-19 has us all in a tizzy
Too much information making all of us dizzy
Most who’ve been exposed self-quarantine
Running out of toilet paper making us mean
“Social distancing” is the phrase du jour
Scientists now scrambling to find the cure
Hurry!
(Chorus)
COVID-19 apolitical
Proper testing so critical
Slow response hypocritical
Naysayers hypercritical
Division and strife
Don’t take my life
Give it back!
What started out in China as an epidemic
No respecter of nations totally pandemic
All around the world countries shutting down
Even New York City looks like a ghost town
Is there no end to this viral mess
As our way of life’s forced to evanesce?
Scary!
(Chorus)
COVID-19 apolitical
Proper testing so critical
Slow response hypocritical
Naysayers hypercritical
Division and strife
Don’t take my life
Give it back!
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