Poems of the Week

It’s Not the Swine Flu

by Alex Steelsmith

“Some Argentines turn to unusual pandemic pets for comfort…
Luciana Benetti found her plans for a big traditional 15th birthday party scrapped.
In its place, her parents gave her a pig.”

ABC News

Snuggledy-piggledy,
some Argentinians
coping with Covid are
crossing a line.

Skeptical critics might
unsympathetically
claim they are casting their
girls before swine.