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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