[Jim Moonan]

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You never know, in times like this, when you’ve crossed a line… But I thought we could have some fun (that might be the line) with streaming a thread of virus-themed verse or otherwise wordy wit to soothe and salve the mad world we have all retreated from and into in these United States. (And Elsewhere?) The drain has been swamped.

I’ve seen a virus-themed verse or two (Susan’s Sequestration on metrical for one) but would like to read more pandemic poetry and what kinds of thoughts, emotions, behaviors, inspiration it has spawned. Has the same panic griped the UK and elsewhere? I could google… But that’s so isolating and disorienting. Online searches give me vertigo lately. Has the term, “social distancing” crept into the dictionary elsewhere? Social distancing — now there’s an oxi-irony not lost on me.

Does anyone have some poetic pandemic-related doodling they’ve been doing? I've done some.

Here's one:

Fear; noun, verb
An alternate definition:
When all of life becomes a slurry of metaphors spiced with puns and double entendres topped with a dollop of irony.
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