Plague Songs - Slogan / by Rich Hobbs

The kind of day

The work’s so dull

The mind freefalls

    In Brownian motion

Ideas clump

Slogans cluster

Thoughts fandango

    Cascading through the mind

As you idly

Carve arabesques

On your femur

    With the point of your scythe

Nothing is good

Nothing is bad

Colon cancer’s

    Just yesterday’s beetroot

The tracheal

Haemorrhage is

Puked up red wine

    And coughs are simply coughs

Then the klaxons 

Scream! Screens light up!

Back in action!

    The slogans spring to mind!

Adland copy!

Hookline sinkers!

“It ain’t Covid

    Til the thin laddie swings!”