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Covid

2020 came in
A new year
So far away
China struggling
Culturally
Physically
Economically
An extended gap

10 thousand die of flu
Remember SARS
Didn’t materialise
Figures suggest 20 thousand deaths
Early Feb, quarantine measures
We were told
Must take it as part of the heard
Face masks: no use

March
It got real
Italy hit
Schools, universities, everywhere
Lock-down
Hospitals couldn’t cope
Elderly made comfortable as they die
Spain then followed
The USA: invaded
COVID

The UK next
Death tolls rising
Schools shut
Pubs, shops close
Extended queues at supermarkets
The Epidemic was real

Dirt lined mouth
Covid shell coating
Fever starts
Shaking, sweating
Side to side
Restless
Confusion
What day is it?
The time, light or dark?
Able to walk
So So tired
Confused
Got through fever
Cannot eat
Cannot sleep
Can only drink
Mouth, toxic taste
Gargling
Stomach rocketing
Green sick
Repeatedly
Bits of bile
Knife blades cut stomach
All food, straight through
Lack Focus
Half listen music
Isolate from news
Off Facebook
Face smashed: brick wall
Coming too
Mind first
Body second
toxic taste remains
Brush teeth
Wash
Scape off Covid layer
Wash hair
Shave legs
Go outside
Sun rays
Morning stomach crunches
Eat
Hunger
Enjoy meals
Crunches go
Toxic taste departs
Covid free
Live again

Every newsflash: a death count
UK the epicentre
Pandemic at height
Funerals attended
Numbers rise further
20 thousand deaths predicted passed
40 thousand deaths passed

Normality begins to return
Face mask rules introduced
Shops begin the re-open
Café’s serve outside
Pubs re-open
Long summer of rain
Distress
Nation is recovering

The schools return
All back to work
Furlough ends
Testing systems introduced

Then…
All again
Infections rise
Death toll increases
No tests available
Covid rages
Nation under threat
Covid takes us prisoner….

Alison Little