Thursday, March 19, 2020

earth note 733 adjusted for the virus


night rain ends
the dog is still dreaming as in whimpering
every street is coffee black
most of the houses
are on lockdown
save your ire while you're still feeling it
keep your hands away from your face
don't pick your nose
shave away your facial hair
you were never born with it anyway

a county executive wants to cleanup the porta-johns
at the frackin cracker plant construction site
didn't anyone tell him
     shit flows downhill
     don't bite your fingernails
     (and payday's on friday)

so the store shelves got raided
before sunrise
toilet paper has made it to the commodity exchange
you need keys to the city
to get into the senate office building bathrooms
so take the money & run in your cleanest jockey shorts
i won't be voting for you anyway

a pickup truck with a rusted-out bed
is dropping his muffler on the avenue
no one told him to keep quiet
& stay home today
so he's heading downstream
to the cracker plant
     river rising

--- e b bortz

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