Скачать или смотреть Two (short) Covid 19 poems

31 March 2020
COVID CAVES
Know, that on entering deep caves there’s no way back
Some have back exits some have endless black silence
Sucked into dark pits coughing for breath
Ice fear in warm blood, fragile life hangs

Hangs in the balance, hangs by a thread
A cold coin tossed, heads win tails dead
But small silver lining, signing off sick
Covid’s not cancer ... though brutal it's quick

23 March 2020
WAITING FOR COVID
Standing still, belly tight, waiting for Covid
Prayers, anger, supplication, all useless
The third world lives in the shadow of death
But not us, we are unused to the starkness
Unused to the casual brutality of nature
To the merciless random decimation

Watching dumbstruck in helpless trepidation
As the tidal wave of grief approaches
A thought occurs to me “If I die
What happens to my ninety toilet-rolls ?”
No seriousness