Meltdown #12: Social Code Red
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

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
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

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
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

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
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

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
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

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
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

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
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

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
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

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
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

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
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

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
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

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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Lockdown #13: Social Heroes
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

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
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

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
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

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
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

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
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

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
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

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
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

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
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

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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