never heard her weep out loud before

hard to believe she loves me so much

they called her in for this one last time

no kisses allowed or a hint of a touch

lonely years and empty days before that

vision of blue eyes and short red dress,

the night fate put me on the right path

ending years of drift and its futile mess

takes a lot to kill love but I did my best

pu...

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half-dead they do linger

machines tinkle and purr

medics swathed in plastic

distressed humans a-stir

beneath ICU wards and

amid odd cavities galore

smaller fauna breathes

distant the muffled roar

who considers the mice?

they live in hospital too

a big enough challenge

without this virus stew

if you listened carefully

on dozing wards at night

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social distancing scorned

masks impede his beard

visor scares the reindeer

spooking as he steered

medics shave his whiskers

off with red festive attire

reindeer pining for Santa

cough softly at their byre

tube down Santa's chimney

no more season's greetings

in a coma Christmas begets

few hale or hearty meetings

drones take Santa's place

icy pla...

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History will wash its hands of 2020

Wuhan bats and disposable masks,

Just another year in human annals

Fodder for future historians' tasks

Who'd have thought it a year ago?

A holocaust of innocent old dears

Lockdowns and social distancing

I always felt it would end in Tiers

Hand gel and hissing ventilators

Dodgy oxygen levels all the rage,

Vulnerable citizen...

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Nothing could stop what we did

Alchemy dictates its conclusion,

Tangled in an urgent chemistry

Physically desperate for fusion

What became of that poor girl?

Hiding those scars on her wrist

Bruises like plates on her back

Her lips in pain when we kissed

A freshers' conference is wild

Or used to be in olden times

Before masks and distancing

And other anti-...

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Giant girders bent and burnt and

Crushed fire engines daunt the

Halls of the museum at Albany N.Y. the

Monumental fossils of

9/11 but what will be the

Bones of war with small fry that

Flew poker-faced into the side of our souls?

After the cover-ups and cock-ups and shifty politics and

Constructive euthanasia and

Plastic heroes what

Glorious moraine can grinding folly ...

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