Plague Rat
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I am a plague rat
A covid cat
A diseased gnat
My lineage?
The OG bat
That went splat
In the mouth
Of some pratt
Or perhaps it was a lab
Concocted by a Chinese bureaucrat…
Daddy Dom Danny Andrews
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Daddy Dom Danny
Loves locking us down
Six times he’s tied us up
To keep us from leaving town
He’s all about submission
And just loves the control
“Stay at home” he commands
“Or we’ll all pay the toll”
But Daddy we’re bored
Please give us something to do!
“Put this mask on baby,
Wouldn’t want you catching the flu”
Red Signs and Rainbows
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Everyone’s experience of lock-down is different. My heart goes out to the children and partners of abusers, to the families of loved ones who pass, to the kids struggling to make sense of it all, to the parents struggling to put food on the table and to everyone going a touch insane with so much time to fill.
We are currently not allowed to use playgrounds, and residents have taken to putting rainbows in their windows as a way to show solidarity with one another, as well as for a little game for the children as they walk past.
I Am Constant Change
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Who am I other than constant change?
Thoughts come and go,
Same with emotion, memory and desire,
I am not who I was a moment ago,
And who I am won’t last.
I am constant change,
I am the thread of time,
Birth to death,
Ever changing,
Ever growing,
Never the same…
Pandemic
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I use poetry as a form of therapy. This piece came as a response to the collective trauma that we are all currently navigating our way through.
My goal was to combine my inner feelings with those I am seeing from others. I also wanted to tell a story with this particular rhyming structure.
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