Lawrence Hall
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                                     ­        The Taste of Covid

                                              “Never give in…”

                                    -Mr. Churchill, 29 October 1941

Coffee is metallic, as is my morning toast
Most everything else is vague, fuzzy, and flat
As if the world needed a pinch of salt
And that’s okay; it’s good to be alive

They say that there’s another variant or wave
Named Mu or Omicron or maybe Bob
Slithering ashore through Grendelian mists
We take our jabs in defiance because

We all have casualty lists of friends we miss
That’s not okay, and so we will never give in

(I still don’t know why coffee should taste metallic)