Florence says...Talk to the Hand

Try it!
Foreign country
Friends, family so far away....

In a world that is not your own
and we watch
and the numbers grow
in death
and contagion

and as we watch
tears are shed
because we are in a foreign land
and we do not know
when we can escape
and
meanwhile
the numbers grow

you sit
and you have your home
and all that is your life
just a little jettisoned at this time

is it too much to ask?
That you stop this pestilence
by staying home?
Because we are
for weeks
and weeks
and weeks
because we want to see our lives come back
but you whinge
and whine
and bitch
cos its not fair.........
and the death toll rises
because you whinge
and whine
and bitch
cos its not fair.

I'll tell you what's not fair..
the millions in Mumbai
who have nowhere to go
so they die

I'll tell you what's not fair
its the people who want
to be able to return to their home
and the people they love
or where they belong

So I watch you
you privileged
arrogant
entitled
ones

how dare you think
that what you have is not fair?
We have the tears
and the desperation
and the heartache

So don't ever tell me what is not fucking fair.

Florence observes the Scum.......

Our world has suddenly gone

Away

From normal

To dark

And can we see  the light?

The doors close on streets and gardens

Faces peer through windows

A cough resounds ……

Seeking life that is now forbidden to them

But I see

The fools

The arrogant

The privileged

The stupid

The sanctimonious

I see them all

The fools shake hands with their friend- but where have they been?

How can you know which surface they have touched

With fingers

Now with strands of the RNA virus.

The arrogant and the privileged go skiing in Aspen

Determined to bring home some American RNA to share

With the vulnerable- the babies, the young, the old…

Admire these ones as they have no care for others because the only ones who matter are them

And they’ve had a bloody good holiday

And they’re not sneezing

Yet

The sanctimonious

Pray to god to stop it

Without admitting their role in the spread of the disease…

They think their empty prayers

Might deliver forgiveness of an evil deed that has no words to describe…… what they decided they could visit upon the world…….