Coronamusic

One of the bright spots of World War II was the music that emerged from the emotions of young lovers being separated by the call to arms of its citizen soldiers.  Beautiful music, heart-tugging lyrics. All that is missing in our war against Coronavirus.  Maybe we need to revisit those early '40s years and update their music.

I'll Walk Alone
old lyrics:
,I'll walk alone, because to tell you the truth, I'll be lonely
I don't mind being lonely
When my heart tells me you are lonely, too.

                                

New Lyrics:

I'll walk alone, we must stay six feet apart,

And you can't hold my hand,
Though you still hold my heart.

I think it does capture the vibe of our times although that may not rank as authentic heart-tugging. Here's another possibility:           

Don't Get Around Much Anymore
Old lyrics:

Missed the Saturday dance
Heard they crowded the floor
Couldn't bear it without you
Don't get around much anymore.

New Lyrics
Missed the Saturday dance
Found a lock on the door
Coronavirus surrounds me
Plenty here to deplore.

The experts tell us we will get through this and when we do we will need an updated version of a welcome home ballad to light up our lives:

It's Been a Long Long Time

Old lyrics:

Kiss me once, then kiss me twice

Then kiss me once again

It's been a long, long time.

Haven't felt like this, my dear

Since I can't remember when

It's been a long, long time.

New lyrics

Test me once, then test me twice
Then test me once again
It's isolation time.
Job gone south, sores in mouth
Temperature at 110
Our stocks aren't worth a dime.

Some of those probably need work but what the heck, time is the one thing of which I have an over supply. Better to be focused on creating high art than to keep banging my tin cup on the bars of my cell and screaming, "I'm innocent.  I'm innocent."

Pernicious Pestilence and Plagiarism

Let's deal with the issue of plagiarism right up front: some of the material in the following screed is lifted directly from the King James Bible, but so what?  I'm not the first to plagiarize Ezekiel and Kings and I will not be the last. At this point I need their wisdom to bolster my premise: the Corno 19 plague is all part of the master plan of that mythological clock Master that set the galaxies and the planets and the individual Earth-lives spinning in their assigned orbits.

Here is Ezekiel 5:17 telling us how the LORD made people see things His way: "So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee.  I, the LORD have spoken."

Listen to 1 Kings 8:37, in which Solomon describes how the LORD "sent a pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be..."

There are many more Biblical authors who beat the same drum, but the point they all agree on is that mighty forces prevail when men or mammals get out of line.  Who, us? Creatures of the Earth?  We get out of line? Let us count the ways:

Remember way back in that other century when those sex-crazed grasshoppers visited those Mormons in Utah and all the grasshoppers wanted to do was procreate and feast on the crops? See what happened. Yo, here come the sea gulls.

The LORD doesn't like it when His flock gets out of balance. Those hoppers weren't satisfied with just becoming fishing lures and providing entertainment for capture-inspired boys and girls.

And yes, you Adam and you too Eve.  You both accepted the mission to go out and multiply but you wayyy overdid it.  And what your progeny did to the Garden is beyond forgiveness. Extracting minerals and carbon-based material with no regard to the environment. Destroying the planet's lungs by cutting down most of its trees.  Filling earth's most precious treasure, its oceans, with plastic garbage and using the life-sustaining reservoir of air as a sewer is only a small list of the insults to the magnificent gifts that were given to a virgin planet.

Need we ask why a non-forgiving agent has come among us, thinning the herd?  No surprise that the ones with walkers and canes who can't keep up are the first to fall. Oh, you don't buy Guy-in-the-Sky meddling?  Try NATURE DEMANDS BALANCE (grasshoppers taken care of but what about these 12 trillion Homo sapiens?). Or something else. The one thing we do know for sure is that something put a really big you-know-what in our punch bowl.

Don't forget to wash your hands.