Science causes our Covid compliance fatigue

From inconvenience
(as we lack calm resilience)
do grant us lenience!
Let’s rely on own brilliance!

Amidst all impertinent tasks
we’re joined strong in resistance
to those ‘steam up my glasses’ masks
and keeping 6 ft distance!

Those demands imposed on us like blitzkrieg!
Honor our fatigue! Unfair the intrigue!

The Power Elite offers cruel quips while The Poor lose their tenuous grips

Getting to take the backseat
on a vehicle of success
ain’t lounging in a box seat
or being gifted some largesse

The Poor do slide off the pillion
when Elite does a wheelie
who ‘earn’ yet another billion
throttling entitled, freely

The Power Elite
who rarely feels contrite
expresses its conceit:
“The Poor should’ve held on tight!”

As The Poor fall off on Life’s ride
the Elite takes it in their stride

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-pillion = here: a small cushion-like passenger seat of a motorbike

Nattligt väcker mej spikrak

Det tog då bara sekunder
uti livets mångåriga strid
att begå en pinsam blunder
som lämnat mej utan sinnesfrid

Fast ej gjort så illa
synes omöjligt
att nu sej inbilla
något så löjligt

Nattligt väcker mej spikrak
känslor lurar till stort omak
torr i munnen med bismak
huttrande som om i isvak

Kan skammen någonsin övervinnas
måste jag obarmhärtigt påminnas?

So what if our Species outlook is dire, as long as the consumer heart stays afire

Right wingers march in neo-heimat
breathe out air & thought pollution
To ignore the collapsing climate
appears their preferred ‘solution’

How shall this mess, surely soon, end
as false cheers drag us in abjection?
Pernicious threats makes deadly blend
in consumer dreams, wide selection:

Wars been raging without ceasefires
as do now global floods, wildfires

Nations lacking sense to back down
prance at very edge of nuclear war
they war game ‘limited’ showdown
while ‘suitcase bombs’ may blast through backdoor

Too close to the edge we totter
in political meltdown
by the self-styled ‘genius’ plotter
revealed himself vile a clown

Economy precariously
fumbles while greed’s ruthless prophets
on Wall Street most nefariously
amass usurious profits

Enabled by our own inanity
we’re perishing amidst insanity!

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‘genius’ plotter = Trump