Ode to COVID — DANIELLE GIRARD

Ode to #COVID

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Oh, Corona, your UNTAMED virus is a RUTHLESS GAME that puts us in GRAVE DANGER. You make us fear we’ll lose SOMEONE WE KNOW. Even with a healthy family, I feel, WITHOUT FAIL, that I am a BAD MOTHER when everyone is SO SAD TODAY and THE HOURS pass while NO ONE KNOWS what BIG MAGIC will give us ONE CLEAN SHOT to end this thing.

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I’ve always been a TRUE BELIEVER in appreciating LITTLE LOVELY THINGS and running a FUN HOME, but we’re NORMAL PEOPLE, Mr. Co19, and it would be A MERCY to go to a party with friends. You have left us thinking those days are LONG AND FARAWAY GONE and we will be BRAVING THE WILDERNESS alone, sneaking out in the COLD SILENCE because we have EVERYTHING TO LOSE if we EXPOSE each other.

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For my daughter, life without friends is HER EVERY FEAR and my WAYWARD SON, who was ON THE COME UP and at SUCH A FUN AGE, is now like a STRANGER IN THE LAKE. I tell them THE HERO IS YOU, but I don’t think they buy it and now it takes everything to EXCISE them from their rooms.

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ALL WE EVER WANTED was to send them off to college before Montana’s next WHITE OUT. Instead, they are in the DEAD CENTER of this strange time you have created, Mr C. Virus. It will surely go down as a DARK PASSAGE to adulthood, as they are CHASING DARKNESS you have planted in their heads.

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At least we are here BENEATH A SCARLET SKY, in Montana. I only pray our love of this place and each other doesn’t EXPIRE before we can break THE CHAIN of your nasty concoction. To conquer you, oh shameless infector 19, we shall have to go BIRD BY BIRD, try not to behave like A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES, believe that things will get BETTER and have faith that, despite you, oh Covid19, THE THREE MARTINI PLAYDATE is in our future.

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And on that glorious day, when we have eradicated you, we might very well have a fourth 🍸. And perhaps a 5th as well...