by Clyde Always

“Okay it’s done: We’re ‘fully vaxxed’
and begging on our knees:
Can all restrictions be relaxed?
Oh, pretty-pretty-please?”

“Of course they can, and bless your heart;
so glad you understand…
Go out and play (two yards apart)
with vax cards close at hand.

No, wait! Come back! Oh me, oh my!
It’s COVID’s newest spawn:
the Omi-sigma-theta-pi-
omega-delta-cron!

The cases are about to rise!
This variant’s our doom!
Go cover all beneath your eyes
and gather via ZOOM!

How well behaved you’ve been—you bet!
But ‘fully vaxxed’ you’re not…
So, run along now. Go and get
your latest booster shot.”

“Okay it’s done: We’re ‘fully vaxxed’
and begging on our knees:
Can all restrictions be relaxed?
Oh, pretty-pretty-please?”