Meltdown #12: Social Code Red
This week a shrill cry of Code Red for humanity
From the international climate academy
Alarm bells were deafening
Our moment of reckoning
We’re facing a slow burn climate calamity
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Meltdown #11: Social Spirit
What a rollercoaster week of see-sawing moods
Our Olympic spirit got a little battered and bruised
From happy and glorious
To lockdown nauseous
Not the way we had hoped this week would conclude
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Meltdown #10: Social Letters
Dear Scott, you were adamant this wasn’t a race
Last year’s longest lockdown has just gone to waste
You squandered our suppression
A blundering indiscretion
How you botched our vaccination is such a disgrace
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Meltdown #9: Social Apology
Our lockdown continues until next Tuesday
But will it extend to yet a new day
Still in New South Wales
Delta freely exhales
While it’s Freedom Day for our friends in UK
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Meltdown #8: Social Favours
Australia is waking to a new Delta dawn
Across two largest States this variant has spawned
A State of Origin showdown
The fifth time we close down
In this never-ending game, we’re merely a pawn
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Meltdown #7: Social Inoculation
After all this time, we’re still COVID naked
The nation is starkers, barely vaccinated
Front line orderlies
Drivers, the elderly
People are frustrated, leaders berated
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Meltdown #6: Social Knife Edge
I had hoped to run out of COVID events
To write limericks with more of a climate bent
But while mountains are melting
This bug is still belting
And cunningly contorts and reinvents
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Meltdown #5: Social Alliteration
Our mood is as dark as the encroaching shortest day
Our freedom is as feeble as the solstice ray
Much rancour and rage
Confined in our cage
Our last long winter weekend and we can’t go away.
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Meltdown #4: Social Emotions
Eighty COVID cases, our future looks bleak
Staying in lockdown for another week
And will it extend
To our long weekend
This new Delta variant’s an airborne freak
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Meltdown #3: Social Dreaming
As the wrath of winter over Melbourne descends
Another lockdown sends us around the bend
Hotel seepage
Cluster leakage
The cacophony of COVID just never ends
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Meltdown #2: Social Budget
It’s Mothers’ Day and we thank all our Mums
Not least Matriarchs who have lost loved ones
And Mums that have gone
Some didn’t live long
The toil of raising their daughters and sons
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Meltdown #1: Social Tipping Point
It’s ANZAC Day and time to reflect
Generations lost, wilful neglect
We thank God our sons
Weren’t in WW1
Abhorrent wars, lest we forget
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Lockdown #13: Social Heroes
Mark’s heroic dying days with no dispensation
He weathered two weeks hotel hibernation
With his Mum eighty-one
His daughter and her sons
Five people, two bedrooms and four generations
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Lockdown #12: Social Inequity
It’s a dank dreary February day outside
And we still haven’t cast this virus aside
More lockdown pain
We’re at it again
Victorians told to take it in our stride
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Lockdown #11: New Year Epilogue
As we slam dunked 2020 into the bin
Another COVID year was about to begin
We cannot be calm
Till our shot in the arm
Global vaccination, the only way to win
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Lockdown #10: Final Analysis
Our journey began with a brand-new word
COVID – a term we wished we’d never heard
And Corona was a beer
Before the virus got here
And a worldwide lockdown – totally absurd
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Lockdown #9: Social Unity
Congratulations to smoking Joe Biden
Gave Donald Trump a hell of a hiding
Might not be a boozer
But sure a sore loser
Trump can’t accept the people deciding
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Lockdown #8: Social Reflection
Gradually emerging from this pandemic deep freeze
Restrictions slowly lifted with gradual ease
But we couldn’t turn up
To the Melbourne Cup
We still can’t quite do just as we please
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Lockdown #7: Social Odyssey
Our story has become a Holmes Odyssey
Written from the heart, with raw honesty
But when will it end
We’ve gone round the bend
Our COVID lives limericked for history
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Lockdown #6: Social Imagination
Why wasn’t this lockdown a temporary arrangement
Just time to test tracking and tracing engagement
Victoria’s Bitter
But Melbourne’s no quitter
The pariah of our nation, total estrangement
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