Results for: April 2020


Source: The New York Times

Thank you, Melania

You’ve made some mistakes in life

Among them having become the wife

Of a dude who has a real hard time

With TV ratings that are not prime.

But doing this you are being a star

With ratings more important by far.


Source: BrainyQuote

My Corona

Perhaps the most important thing

Is that it’s blind to subject and king.

We’re all in this one, all together –

Truly birds of the same feather.

I’m hopeful that when we emerge

Compassion will see a lasting surge.


Source: The Economist

Magical Mystery Tour

With all the news about bad times,

People struggling for nickels and dimes,

Here’s a business seeing high growth!

With immediate impact and profits both.

While the cost of entry is fairly low

Like many things, it’s who you know…


Source: The New York Times

Uh, bad tidings…

Back in the days of Bubonic Plague

This German town was not a bit vague…

They promised God if He saved the day

Then every ten years they’d put on a play.

And so it has gone with scant interruption…

But for this new pandemic causing disruption.


Source: CNN

Italy turns a corner

After banging pots and making song

Fighting the virus for awfully long

Italy now has some welcome news

A reversal in the lives they lose

To covid-19 and its economic hit.

Stay strong now, it’s no time to quit!


Source: The New York Post

‘Cuz God wants that?

It all comes down to the Golden Rule

Which basically says: “Don’t be a tool.”

So if you position yourself as a man of God

It seems an awful lot more than a bit odd

That you’d willfully put your flock in danger,

As if Satan tapped you to be his ranger…


Source: The Guardian

Little Comfort

At first it served as a sign of hope

But now it makes us look like a dope.

A thousand beds are going to waste

While our hospitals are being outpaced

By the growing number of urgently sick

Expanding with every tick tick tick…


Source: USA Today

Rough Water

Seems a little harsh to me…

There you are, stuck at sea

A thousand men on a ship

And a virus joining for the trip.

This ain’t a guy inclined to yelp

But was fired for saying “A little help?”


Source: The Economist

Be angle aware

As social distancing becomes the norm

While we battle this huge sh!t storm

We’ve set a new communication goal

And video conferencing is how we roll.

Some tips for how to set your screen:

Underwear and ceilings should not be seen…


Source: The New York Post

Worth a try!

It might be hard to find on a map

But its leader can cure Covid in a snap.

Belarus has advice to get through

This trying time with two things to do.

Best of all you can build up resistance

While also keeping your social distance.