Newspaper Poetry During COVID-19
Today's paper had the first COVID-19 poem that made me laugh. I'm reprinting it in full here because SF Chronicle's web layout ruins the poem's rhythm and I want people to see the magic and serendipity of a physical newspaper. Subscribe! (E-reading is the pitts! You'd have never noticed this online.) Enjoy: We're All the Lone Ranger by Ishmael Reed Maybe it’s a good idea to keep homo sapiens/Indoors/less opportunity to get into mischief How about two months every year/The Yang administration would pick up the tab The oceans and the forests could take a deep breath Men would pay as much attention to their/Loved ones, as they do to guns Every house would have a treadmill/Rowing machine and bike/Stomachs would be flattened The streets of Oakland would be as clean as/The streets of Vienna Bears would inhabit the meadows of Yosemite/Instead of tourists Species terrorized by humans/Could relax Families would eat at the dinner table/Instead of in the park...