Wednesday, May 6, 2020

A Television Ad for the Virus Time - poem

Lawrence Hall
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poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

A Television Ad for the Virus Time

Begin the same old insta-emo piano music; roll stock footage of beautiful, happy families having far more fun in isolation than you ever will.

Voice-over narrator in the slow, soft, persuasive tones we associate with some of our nation’s more accomplished mass-murderers:

We’re here for you we’re here to help together
Trust together we’re in this together
We care together we’re listening together
We will rise to the challenge together                      [Keep it SLOW]

The indomitable human spirit together
We’ll learn something about each other that
We just didn’t know before together
We are all on the same team together                      [SLOWWWW]

And when this is over, when we all smile again     [Slow and then pause]

Together                                                                   [SLOW and ‘WAY LOW, pause]

We’ll all buy a bottle of Bob’s Boysenberry Gin!   [PATRIOTIC EXUBERANCE!]

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