Saturday, March 7, 2020

Does Baby Yoda have Coronavirus? - poem early in the virus-time

Lawrence Hall
mhall46184@aol.com
poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

Does Baby Yoda have Coronavirus?

A student with a Yoda pen 1 might write
In a Yoda notebook 2 in bed at night
($6.99 at the mall or online)
Soft sensitive thoughts about me, my, mine

A shivering child locked behind the wire
Amid the winter cold and muck and mire
Is sternly kept to a crowded workbench
Among toxic chemicals, glue, and stench

An American child, a girl or boy
Cuddles a fluffy little Christmas toy 3
A Uighur child, poor little exhausted soul
With bleeding hands cuddles
                                            an empty bowl


1 $19.72
2 college-lined, just like at Oxford University, eh?
3 “Baby Yoda Stuffed Animal Plush with Necklace, Baby yoda mandalorain Toy The Child Soft Action Figure Birthday Children’s Day Gift Fans Collection $19.98 $19.98 $2.00 coupon applied. Save $2.00 with coupon $3.00 shipping”


(And so it is with the computer upon which this is written, and so it is with the computers on which this is read. None of us is clean.)