You Are Not Alone
Shut the church doors
Put on your gloves
Close the cafes
The clock strikes 5
They bellow: YOU ARE NOT ALONE
Don’t cough
How rude!
Tick tick tick tock
No time for bullshit
Stop your commute
You silly fool
Don’t visit your grandad!
Stay away, stay away!
Laugh at the panic buyers
Panic buy.
Halt the service sector
It’s not that important anyway
The clock strikes 5
They bellow: YOU ARE NOT ALONE
Is your journey essential?
Are you essential?
We won’t be like italy
You’ve lost your job
Tick tock
We are not America
stop the schools
Stop the cleaners
Our beast
Our greed,
Did you know it can be paused!
Silence
A COVID Community
No footsteps
No planes
Is this a message
Is it a dream?
The clock strikes 5
They bellow: YOU ARE NOT ALONE
Righty-tighty
Stiffen your lip
Log onto zoom let’s do a quiz
You can still buy fizz
still shop in Marks and Sparks
People are kinder
And there’s less
Less noise
Less stress
A message pops up
Apologies
We’re decreasing your interest
The clock strikes 5
They bellow: YOU ARE NOT ALONE
Skeleton workers
Stop going to the parks
You irresponsible parent of 3!
One in one out!
Our lovely British police
They can stop you now
While munching through your tins
Keep clapping for the NHS
Beans, tuna, tomatoes
Any spare?
Tick tick tick tock
The prime ministers got it
The clock strikes 5
They bellow: YOU ARE NOT ALONE
He looks tired
manages to crack a joke
It’s still a novelty
It’s Corporate socialism
Don’t let your staff go
We’ll pay them
Tick tock
April showers have arrived
We get to be contemplative now
behind the pages of a book
We forgot to mention
Not now
for goodness sake
We didn’t say we could pay them now
Redundancy
I can hear the birds
I can feel the trees breathing
Some people’s homes
Are in their head
Some homes are prisons
Not designed for isolation
The clock strikes 5
They bellow: YOU ARE NOT ALONE