Back to Normal

Today you can get your hair crimped

Your non essential goods pimped

They think its all over

It is for now

Look I’m not judging

It’s just that normal never did it for me

I always saw it as shallow and vacuous

but hey I’m not a tree.

Maybe I should just get with it and strut my stuff

down the High Street that’s already seen enough guff.

Like a pinball machine I ricochet down Great Darkgate Street

From the Pound shop to the Bakers

 to the Coffee Shop then Undertakers.

They were sucking our souls before lockdown came in

but looking in the mirror and then to the bin.

Working to keep busy, to buy food and pay bills

never answered my existential chills.

If Covid didn’t take you then Commercialism would

I’d escape if I knew that I could.

Even if it stopped and I was no longer here,

I’d end up somewhere where a twat was shouting "more beer"

No it’s back to normal for you and for me.

The insanity is on show for all to see.

Further Reading

https://expressiveegg.org/2020/10/27/the-normal-that-never-was/