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Originally Posted by Jim Moonan
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Is poetry not as vital as I thought?
Is no one able to add a couplet or two fraught
with the exposed insecurities the virus has wrought?
Are we not able to see the poetry in the onslaught?
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(I know there are metrical/logic issues with my couplets but I'm just spitting them out; not spending too much time making them perfect.)
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In no particular order ...
I think that I have never seen
A Covid nasty as nineteen.
Across the crowded room, she looks desirous
But I am staying put, thanks to the virus.
You're lovely, dear, but I'll use self - control
And touch you only with a six foot pole.