# COVID’s Metamorphosis (WARNING: Contains original poetry)

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**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [May 27, 2020, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-s-metamorphosis-warning-contains-original-poetry/854525 "2020-05-27T03:24:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-s-metamorphosis-warning-contains-original-poetry/854525/1 "2020-05-27T03:24:21Z")

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You hid in winds and pangolins  
The darkest danger of the year,  
And waited for the clouds to clear.  
To send them into quarantine -  
Queasy, quiescent and quotidian.

Collective memories of scourges past.  
Broken and brooding; sad and saturnine,  
Mysterious, lachcrymal and malign.  
As if tremendous times could little last  
Surpassed by sepulchres of pique and pine.

The reassuring motives of routine  
Replaced by daily counts and dim unease.  
Alarm and fright, fear and obsequies.  
Forgotten feelings - frayed and unforeseen.  
Planets aren’t always pure. Peaceful. Pristine.

But friends and families can’t be long apart.  
And folks are full of hope and enterprise.  
Sheltered songbirds still sing and harmonize  
To chase away the gloom and heavy hearts.  
And know that better days will soon restart.

Clogged streets now strangely silent and sedate  
Like stuck seniors and stalled economies  
And empty schools and frozen factories;  
When winter winds blow wild, life hibernates.  
And with each resurgent spring recuperates.

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**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-s-metamorphosis-warning-contains-original-poetry/854525/2 "2020-05-29T22:12:46Z")

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Good thing the Vogons didn’t have pandemics.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-s-metamorphosis-warning-contains-original-poetry/854525/3 "2020-05-29T23:17:12Z")

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You’re the Ovid of Covid.

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**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-s-metamorphosis-warning-contains-original-poetry/854525/6 "2020-06-01T00:34:31Z")

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Probably not. But maybe the Zola of ebola, the Trump of mumps or the Yeats of yaws?