Stay Safe!

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Australian poet, poem, poetry, Stay Safe, WuFlu crisis

𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐒𝐚𝐟𝐞!

“Stay safe!” — it has replaced the phrase: “Take care.”
“Stay safe!” is now becoming hard to bear.
“Stay safe!” — should I stay safe tucked up in bed?
“Stay safe!” — are streets all littered with the dead?
“Stay safe!” — so is my safety now assured?
“Stay safe!” — with all this safety I am bored!
“Stay safe!” — I can’t stay safe! Not all the time!
“Stay safe!” — although it isn’t quite a crime,
It’s just a somewhat mindless thing to say;
For life is dangerous, therefore — Good Day!

— D.N. O’Brien

Yesterday

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Australian poet, ChiCom, Chinese Communist Party, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, poem, poetry, WuFlu crisis

𝐘𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲

The ChiComs are bad? Ya don’t say!
But they were our pals yesterday!
In those recent times
We knew of their crimes,
But smiled and looked the other way.

— D.N. O’Brien

A Real Plague

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Australian poet, Grim reaper, Plague, plague doctors, poem, poetry, scythe, Triolet, WuFlu crisis

𝕬 𝕽𝖊𝖆𝖑 𝕻𝖑𝖆𝖌𝖚𝖊

The plague has passed; the reaper’s scythe is sheathed!
Though half the people lie beneath the loam.
If doctors of the plague can be believed,
The plague has passed; the reaper’s scythe is sheathed.
Go to each house and tell the poor bereaved:
(That’s if there is a living soul at home)
The plague has passed; the reaper’s scythe is sheathed!
Though half the people lie beneath the loam.

— D.N. O’Brien

The Viral Solution

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Australian poet, bats, Covid19 crisis, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, poem, poetry, Viruses, WuFlu crisis

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

They are basically aerial rats,
And they plaster the world with their scats.
They are full of disease,
And they do as they please.
I suggest we exterminate bats.

— D.N. O’Brien

An Application to Track

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Australian poet, Covid-19, poem, poetry, Tracking App, Tracking by mobile phone, Triolet, WuFlu crisis

𝐀𝐧 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤

You never thought that it would come to this?
A crisis, it excuses such excess.
These clowns, you thought, were just taking the piss —
You never thought that it would come to this.
Their useful fools will salivate and hiss:
“It’s for the common good!” Come on confess —
You never thought that it would come to this —
A crisis, it excuses such excess.

— D.N. O’Brien

Australian Government to track citizens exposed to virus

The Waiting Wog

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Australian poet, Covid-19, Covid-19 lock-down, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, poem, poetry, WuFlu crisis

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐨𝐠

Big Brother the masses is guiding,
As in their safe spaces they’re hiding.
But come out they must
When settles the dust.
The virus, its time it is biding.

— D.N. O’Brien

Half & Half

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Australian poet, Covid-19 lock-down, epigram, Herd animals, poem, poetry, Rhyming couplets, WuFlu crisis

𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐟 & 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐟

Half of us are sick of all this shit.
The other half? Well they’re enjoying it.

— D.N. O’Brien

Just Another Day at the Wet Market

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Australian poet, Chinese wet markets, Covid-19, poem, poetry, WuFlu crisis

𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁

Hey! Buy fresh bat! It come with free disease.
And battered rat on stick will make you wheeze.
Swamp turtle marinated in its shell —
Delicious! But peg nose — it kinda smell!
And pangolin of course my specialty!
Buy two you get dried civet cat for free!
Big snake! Just throw him on the coals alive!
Be careful he don’t bite — you won’t survive.
Assorted viral toppings — take your pick!
They are all guaranteed to make you sick.

— D.N. O’Brien

Supermarket Police

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Australian poet, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, poem, poetry, Police State, WuFlu crisis

𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞

Keep your distance! You two! Move apart!
Wash your hands! Don’t touch that shopping cart!
It’s not yet been wiped down!
And I’m watching you clown!
Don’t you dare cough or sniffle or fart!

— D.N. O’Brien