And crawled head downward down a blackened wall
~
there is
a toilet paper shortage
again . . .
no
there isn’t
really
it’s a shortage
in people’s minds
hoarders
though why
toilet paper
of all things
I can’t say
and a failure
of deliveries
all the transport workers
are sick
can’t get
stuff
to the supermarkets
can’t get tested
can’t walk
can’t run
can’t fly
different reasons
same results
as a distraction
the government
is providing entertainment
now
a court case
about whether an individual –
unvaccinated –
should be in the country
to play tennis.
big deal
we are the land
of
let-it-rip
and
bugger the consequences
what do we care
if the hospitals
shut
the testers quit
the quick tests
don’t exist
the school kids
heading back to class
can’t
get a dose
what do we care
so long
as we can be sure
that government
is getting out
of people’s way
not interfering
with their right
to die
live
however they want
free from government
that’s us
as free
as buggery
really
~
Frank Prem Poetry 
Wow, this is so powerfully true Frank. It’s all a chain reaction – the hip bone’s connected to the kneebone. You’re writing some powerful poetry a la Covid. I suspect you’ll have plenty for another book. 🙂
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Thank you, Debby. All part of my working through TS Eliot’s The Waste Land. It’s very appropriate to Corona times, I think.
HArd to know what I’ll do with this work when it’s done. Some of it I don’t think I’ll want to put into a book. I might record parts of it, instead. I (mostly) enjoyed doing that for the Koala in a Coalmine collection that I just finished.
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Thanks for sharing all that Frank. Whatever you decide, you have lots of material to work with. 🙂
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Why, one would think you’re living in the good ole “Live Free and Die” State of New Hampshire.
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No surprise there, Liz. They all do their learning from each other.
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Powerful!❤️
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It’s the same here, Frank. The Los Angeles School District is supposed to open tomorrow — students must be vaccinated or twice weekly-tested, and the lines for both go for miles. The silliest rule is that the kids will have only outdoors sports activities, which will all require masks. This includes band practice — I have ridiculous visions of the brass and wind instrument players trying to march and blow their instruments through masks! How silly!
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It’s not funny, but I had to laugh, Janet. The ridiculous rules, at present.
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One of my friends commented that the tuba players have the hardest time! With requests that we double masks, I’m wondering if it’s not all floating in the air after all! Yet I’m still hopeful that the surge will peak soon!
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I hope so, too.
Fingers crossed.
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Another winner Frank, said so we’ll and clear
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You’ve captured the madness and herd instinct of politicians (and some folk) beautifully, Frank.
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It’s pretty nuts out there, Jane. Hard to believe, really.
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Got it in a nutshell, Frank. Only by reading other comments do we realise the ‘stupidity’ is all over the world not just in Oz. What Chaos Perhaps we need Maxwell Smart; at the very least he’d teach these know it alls how to apologise. “Sorry about that, Chief” LOL
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