New Year’s Eve, 2020
Covid and Zoom funerals, hate
Radio, cowardice, circumscribe
Your own kidney stones, stents and age,
A late, poetic, coinciding of demise.
In the first, the best of Star Wars,
Our heroes find themselves flotsam
In trash compactor slime, an octopal ogre
Blustering death, fee-fi-fo-fum.
Resolution: finally yoga, finally the diet,
Midnight wine in sacramental toast
To personal, public peace and quiet.
The walls stop, the Dianoga goes.