I'm not leaving lockdown

I'm not leaving lockdown.

What are we? 4 weeks in?

I'm loving it,

It's like living in sin.

It's like life has come to meet me on my terms

no crowds, no noise, no fuss

just loads and loads of empty bus

at this rate I'll be able to throw away me truss.

I know Drakeford and Hancock

will finally bend

to the Capitalist Bastards and their friend

Captain Dettol has just tweeted and pressed send

Bozo the Clown is back on Monday

I bet that will be a fun day

Are we getting blase about the daily death rate?

Human's boredom threshold is quite a state

I didn't go out and clap last night

first time, I'm sorry, I'm ashamed,

can't explain it really

Just say Porthcawl is best.

No when they ease the lockdown or call it a truce

I'm going to be like one of those Japanese soldiers

staying in my island room like a Hikikomori

long after the war is oe'r.

Cos what we've come from was never normal

Despite killing thousands, Covid 19 has done us a favour

by giving us a flavour of what life is like without the madness

of business, of retail, of traffic congestion, of school.

You see, we just couldn't get off the roundabout

long after the magic had gone.

Florence and Dougal were looking grey and faded

and Zebedee had lost his spring.

But you, the 'normals', you have a chance, a choice

to make life so much better by being kinder, mindful and softer

and yes, that includes you men.

"Go placidly amid the noise and haste"  I'm not leaving lockdown.