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Thread #167408 Message #4115703
Posted By: GUEST,Holly Tannen
07-Aug-21 - 09:09 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs (COVID-19; Pandemic)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs (COVID-19; Pandemic)
I Could Not Stop For Covid
by Homily Tannenson
Tune: The Bold Privateer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeHVVpx-ny4
I could not stop for Covid
So He kindly stopped for me.
The Seniors’ bus held only us
And my mortality.
He slowly drove down Franklin Street
As I lay down my phone
And wondered what to say
After nine long weeks alone.
We passed the school where children once
Played soccer on the lawn.
The playground and the swimming pool,
But everyone was gone.
He paused outside the coffee shop
I used to go to eat
But no one was inside now
And no one on the street.
I shivered in the morning fog
The air was cold and dank
No neighbors in the hardware store
The grocery or the bank.
I raised my mask and asked him
Is poison on my breath?
Or shall I live and witness
My town condemned to Death?