Day 8 - A Topical Poem

It is increasingly difficult to be amusing let alone original about the virus crisis so I shall repeat a piece sent to me today by my friend Ian whose weekly face to face I miss greatly already:

MEMORANDA by Ian Harrow

It’s always the right time to accept

your time may be up, or to know

when you should step back, or stay put;

that there’s never a wrong time

to be reminded, for example,

who the people we rely on are

and how few are likely to be celebrities

(imagine them as nurses, or just think

of the sort of job they’d make of the plumbing)

not to mention that there’s never

a bad time to recall that you either

strike the right note or stay silent.

20 March 2020