Meltdown #18: Social Battles
Melbourne is battling a brutal battering
Soaring COVID, violence and tremors earth-shattering
Last Wednesday we’d wake
To a freak earthquake
Floors vibrating and our houses rattling
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Meltdown #17: Social Winners
Two hundred and thirty days of dooming and glooming
But green shoots are sprouting and blossoms are blooming
As we look longingly outside
Let’s put our worry’s aside
Time to tune in our tellies where sport is booming
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Meltdown #16: Social World Order
Horrific scenes that the world clearly remembers
Twenty years ago on this day of all Septembers
Images so indelible
A country thought infallible
Bodies buried in rubble and smouldering embers
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Meltdown #15: Social Surrender
We’ve surrendered to Delta, admitted defeat
Cycled out of control, we fall at its feet
Thrown over the handle bars
The bruises and social scars
Armed only with vaccines, a dishonourable retreat
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Meltdown #14: Social Races
To inspire and distract us from COVID gloom
The Paralympics are here not a moment too soon
Their triumphs of all kind
Sheer power of the mind
A sobering antidote to our lockdown doom
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Meltdown #13: Social Madness
New South Wales has become a State of despair
The State that boasted the gold standard last year
Should have closed Bondi faster
To avert this disaster
From Sydney to Auckland, it has spread everywhere
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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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