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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Lockdown #5: Social Anxiety
Seven months in lockdown, now nearly November
A boring blur, nothing to remember
All day in a daze
With COVID haze
Feels like it’s been one hell of a bender
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Lockdown #4: Social Idiocracy
Our COVID story has hit a twist and a bump
Corona has infected Donald J Trump
He’s no world saviour
Such reckless behaviour
Dismissed the disease as a China stunt
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Lockdown #3: Social Deprivation
It should have been the grand final and warmer weather
But we tuned in to Dan to find out whether
We can enjoy ourselves
Like everyone else
Melbournians are at the end of their tether
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Lockdown #2: Social Meltdown
Our COVID story continues, with lockdown extended
Our Fathers’ Day ruined, our hopes upended
Dan said don’t rush it
We’ve just got to crush it
This prolonged shutdown, he has strongly defended
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Lockdown #1: Social Endurance
This is the story of a deadly pandemic
A killer virus, it wreaked global havoc
At first, they denied
We panic buyed
Just left the dying to our front-line medics
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