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Thread

we decorate our lives

with pearls or sequins,

life stitching on quills,

beads, even vaccines

 

experience makes yarn,

needles sew the thread,

then, behold, a sampler,

buried when we're dead

 

Athena's fingers flew, a

mistress of cross-stitch,

badges sewn each day

sparkling, or just a bitch

 

woven into a biography,

each bauble tells a tale,

but th...

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Needles Under The Tree

History will wash its hands of 2020

Wuhan bats and disposable masks,

Just another year in human annals

Fodder for future historians' tasks

 

Who'd have thought it a year ago?

A holocaust of innocent old dears

Lockdowns and social distancing

I always felt it would end in Tiers

 

Hand gel and hissing ventilators

Dodgy oxygen levels all the rage,

Vulnerable citizen...

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