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Sing A Song of Covid
Remember, remember,
crappy covid propaganda,
hysteria, deceipt and plot.
Imagine our surprise,
to learn the old and sick died,
the fear caused by a sneeze and cough?
We followed stupid rules,
that made Tom Parsons ecstatic,
and a tiny bit priapic!
It's taxing to believe,
we hoped unmasked, unjabbed adults
would go away and, slowly die.
But what I can't accept,
is that we sensitised the West,
to future flues erstwhile benign.
crappy covid propaganda,
hysteria, deceipt and plot.
Imagine our surprise,
to learn the old and sick died,
the fear caused by a sneeze and cough?
We followed stupid rules,
that made Tom Parsons ecstatic,
and a tiny bit priapic!
It's taxing to believe,
we hoped unmasked, unjabbed adults
would go away and, slowly die.
But what I can't accept,
is that we sensitised the West,
to future flues erstwhile benign.
Published 6th Aug 2021
Author's Note
from Lucy Vickery's Spectator Column, "No 3211: sing a song of covid
You are invited to compose a nursery rhyme inspired by the pandemic. Please email entries of up 16 lines to lucy@spectator.co.uk by midday on 4 August."
The poem has alternating 3, 4, 4 beats per respective line repeated throughout with very little rhyme.
Tom Parsons is a character from 1984.
A phenomenon that may not be familiar to you is sensitisation which is explained in the following law report, https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2016-0140-judgment.pdf
You are invited to compose a nursery rhyme inspired by the pandemic. Please email entries of up 16 lines to lucy@spectator.co.uk by midday on 4 August."
The poem has alternating 3, 4, 4 beats per respective line repeated throughout with very little rhyme.
Tom Parsons is a character from 1984.
A phenomenon that may not be familiar to you is sensitisation which is explained in the following law report, https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2016-0140-judgment.pdf
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Anonymous
7th Aug 2021 5:17am
Enjoyed!
"priapic"--new word! Made me laugh when I read it. I don't remember much from 1984, but this is fun.
OK...sensitization, yeah.
Original found-in-nature bug tinkered with to up transmissibility, virality, adaptability...
Was the bug's release from the lab an accident, or "an accident"?
Sensitization--like the allergy phenomenon. In families with many children, the youngest have few allergies, because of exposure in early childhood. As family sizes have shrunk, allergies have become more common...
Yup...more problems to come.
"priapic"--new word! Made me laugh when I read it. I don't remember much from 1984, but this is fun.
OK...sensitization, yeah.
Original found-in-nature bug tinkered with to up transmissibility, virality, adaptability...
Was the bug's release from the lab an accident, or "an accident"?
Sensitization--like the allergy phenomenon. In families with many children, the youngest have few allergies, because of exposure in early childhood. As family sizes have shrunk, allergies have become more common...
Yup...more problems to come.
7th Aug 2021 8:12am
thanks for your comments ... Here's Tom being proud that his children ratted him out, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyR51MqOl5I
Sensistisation - the law report given gives a good explanation.
The poem uses the voice of someone from the future where the disaster suggested _has_ happened but that doesn't mean it will; it doesn't mean I think it will; I just wanted to put the reader into the mindset and to _feel_ what it would be like looking from and being in this situation. The power of art etc ... albeit a more accomplished poet would've done a better job ...
Sensistisation - the law report given gives a good explanation.
The poem uses the voice of someone from the future where the disaster suggested _has_ happened but that doesn't mean it will; it doesn't mean I think it will; I just wanted to put the reader into the mindset and to _feel_ what it would be like looking from and being in this situation. The power of art etc ... albeit a more accomplished poet would've done a better job ...
