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Have you heard today's news? Cancer is getting a downgrade. There's a new BIG C on the block. Raging lions anger against it - no masks, no distancing, no sense? Petrified rabbits hide indoors. No treats, no outings, sit tense! Where are you on the scale? Glossing over the numbers in the news? Disregarding them like deadly floods in far off Bangladesh Or the wild fires in Australia Destroying everything in their path? Maybe you care? you clap? you chip in? While guiltily enjoying this vacation From the hamster wheel that's normal life? Perhaps though you're actually on the frontline? I can only try and guess. Sweating through that tight mask all day Hot breath and holding back stinging tears of rage With no tea break to relieve you from the coughing, the misery, the loneliness, and the deaths? Where are you on the scale?
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Aug 1, 2020
Aug 1, 2020 at 2:42 PM UTC
Where are you on the scale?
Have you heard today's news? Cancer is getting a downgrade. There's a new BIG C on the block. Raging lions anger against it - no masks, no distancing, no sense? Petrified rabbits hide indoors. No treats, no outings, sit tense! Where are you on the scale? Glossing over the numbers in the news? Disregarding them like deadly floods in far off Bangladesh Or the wild fires in Australia Destroying everything in their path? Maybe you care? you clap? you chip in? While guiltily enjoying this vacation From the hamster wheel that's normal life? Perhaps though you're actually on the frontline? I can only try and guess. Sweating through that tight mask all day Hot breath and holding back stinging tears of rage With no tea break to relieve you from the coughing, the misery, the loneliness, and the deaths? Where are you on the scale?
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Aug 1, 2020
Aug 1, 2020 at 2:42 PM UTC
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