No More Think Pieces About COVID

I briefly turn my phone off of “do disturb”
and pretend childhood days spent on another planet where a 60 degree December day was Nothing’s Shocking
Normal

Saint Cloud by Waxahatchee won’t be my COVID album
Joe Biden won’t be our Pandemic President
Warren won’t be my only COVID dog

This will continue, if we did have a shot at shutting it down
We lost it. If we did have a shot at learning great lessons from this,
We punted.

On the night I find out that 800,000 is the American death toll
We start to pick out flights to Florida
I find a babysitter so I can play music on a radio station in the evening on ladies night out

They don’t make think pieces about herpes. They don’t.
They make think pieces about the common cold but you only ever read the first paragraph.
It’s COVID and it’s forever.

The daycare lady tells me she’s nervous about the tornado tonight.
I want to tell her about the candle factory where the boss made them stayed til they died.
I hope I get the email to pick my kids up early.

I hope people know they aren’t testing alarms if they ring them tonight.
In Minnesota they test the weather alarms on the first Wednesday of the month.
It’s December 15. It’s COVID and it’s forever.