RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): Will you kindly SHUT UP (COVID MEMORIES)

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Will you kindly SHUT UP (COVID MEMORIES)

Living the COVID imprisoned life hardly pleasant

With too many thinking these bloody medicos turning statisticians are heaven sent

But incessant “public service messaging” is making one’s mind bent

Threatening if we do not obey we will all be deceased by Lent

This public service chattering verging on irrelevant and boring

Dear governments what advertising agency are you whoring?

“we are all in this together” the telescreen burbles

Patriotic mumbling

Get the Blue Angels flying overhead streaming the red, white and blue

Your creativity and compassion has long been dead

As you run the gruesome numbers

Causing lulling and the slumbers

Messages treating us like goat bleating fools

Better you lecture mules

With a stream of incessant rules

You think you are on the side of some sort of divine right

I am going to say FU and throw a big house party tonight

Not so sure if the next-door neighbours are COVID snitches

Causing the COVID police to come and cart me away

A big fine I’ll pay

And you cruel heartless number crunchers will smile at the yahoo you caught

Putting a terrifying upward movement on your graph

As me and the Proud Boys and the Freedom convoy truckers will laugh

Robert K. Stephen

Published by Robert K Stephen (CSW)

Robert K Stephen writes about food ,drink, travel, film, and lifestyle issues. He also has published serialized novels "Life at Megacorp", "Virus # 26, "Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog" and "The Penniless Pensioner" Robert was the first associate member of the Wine Writers’ Circle of Canada. He also holds a Mindfulness Certification from the University of Leiden and the University of Toronto. Be it Spanish cured meat, dried fruit, BBQ, or recycled bamboo place mats, Robert endeavours to escape the mundane, which is why he has established this publication. His motto is, "Have Story, Will Write."

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