Wednesday, February 12, 2020

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QUARANTINE (February 11)

(with apologies to Alec Wilder, Morty Palitz, and Bill Engvick)

Plagues are made to kill off excess
populations who don't aggress
suf-fic-ient-ly, who breed too fast,
who want a broom, whose time is past.

If this virus can knock us off
not with a Big Bang, but a cough,
it's not the birth of peace on Earth.
We will not be missed, nonetheless.