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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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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