Love in the Time of Covid - a photo on Flickriver

            I'm celebrating a negative test after having Covid a second time. Here's the silly poem I wrote while I was sick last week and trying not to be angry and depressed about it. 

(Silly poems can save your soul!)


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Love in the Time of Covid

I wouldn’t want to get Covid from anyone else but you!
Not the man in his 40s with the red tracksuit 
Barely coughing into his hand
The young jogger in the moonlight with the runny nose
The girl with the braids walking her cute corgi 
Constantly complaining of a sore throat.

I wouldn’t want to get it from
The tired rushing waiter 
Who can’t take a day off work
He’d wear a mask but he’d get less tips
Or the screaming toddler 
Giving it freely to all his friends at daycare

No infection from the Trump supporter 
Who early on drank bleach
Or the anti-vax hippie from California 
Not from the weary traveler 
Lying across two seats on the bus
The librarian so exhausted she falls 
Asleep on an open book

Or the businessman who insists 
“Time is Money” and  “It’s only just a cold."
Kids with their “Cooties” shots
Laughing in each other’s faces on the way to recess
Priests who insist on hugging everyone 
In order to “Pass the Peace"

I don’t want to test positive because of the
older woman at the movie theater who left her hanky behind
Or partying sorority girls who
Will “only live once"

Please don’t let me get sick because of the 
Prick stocking produce at the grocery store
Who keeps sneezing on the vegetables or
The myopic cashier who demands 
“Why wear a mask? Covid is over?"

Not a light or a dark red line 
because of The CDC worker who thinks throwing 
large indoor parties is just fine
None of the guests will test

I wouldn’t want to get it because of the
The tired teacher who took 
An expired rapid test the school gave her
Or the dental hygienist with “brain fog"
Requesting for me to open my mouth wide

I’m saying no to Covid coming from
The pimply teenager at Target 
Who thinks his illness is just weather changes
Or the hospital cleaner without healthcare
Stripping all the dirty bedsheets of former patients

Everywhere I look, I see illness.
Everywhere I listen, I hear people coughing.
Everything I taste…well, I can’t taste anything anymore.
Covid is over except everyone has it. 

But I wouldn’t want to get it
From anyone else but you. 
Now, come over here
And kiss me.


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Taken on: July 4, 2023

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