The Real Reason For Saying “No”

Yes, it's doggerel. And yes, it's really lousy poetry. But still, it’s the true reason behind vaccine hesitancy.

Of Covid cures the net abounds.

Stupidity, that true astounds.

They make excuses, lie and wheedle.

Just because they fear…the needle.

 

But in the end all else is fake

No more than just excuse you make.

 

Cause it’s the shot that makes you diddle

Play pretend, like a kid who’s little

You fear the pain, and so you fiddle…

Now get in line…you Chicken Little.

Author's Note

If you check the web, there are hundreds of supposed “cures” and “preventions” for Covid, ranging from magic amulets to such absurdities as drinking camel piss. None of them work. But all of them are worn, snorted, ingested, or wiped on. So in the end, it’s the needle that scares them away.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unproven_methods_against_COVID-19?fbclid=IwAR2cxu-pwOQ6c58rHKHde3YmV33yefLGH1xVLSnZJMOPS_wAyGjbqu7amoI

Reviews

[JayG]

Here's a funny one: The member, apennylate, who commented, below, once wrote decent poetry. in 2017, she used to get pages of comment for her work. But then, she was gone for seven years.

Obviously, something traumatic happened, because she returned with a slew of angry and disjointed poems that resembled the work of Bunthorn, the pretentious poet from Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta, Patience.

And because I, unaware of her trauma, dared point out the problems, she's declared war, and is pasting repetitive "reviews" of my work, never even reading it.

Here, she posts a "review" of a poem that's a screed, not a critique. Perhaps she's an anti-Vaxxer?

At the moment, she's deleted ALL of her latest offerings, so she recognizes the truth of the suggestions I made. But obviously, her condition is such that she feels she must "punish me" by lashing out like a child.

She seems a few pence short of a pound these days. I should block her, but running around gnashing her teeth and posting gives her something to do, I suppose.

[apennylate]

Also... Here, JayG...
Since you are so keen on enforcing "professional" critiques on writers who literally did not ask for them...
https://www.reddit.com/r/poetry_critics/?rdt=58594
That is a link to a reddit page with MANY avid critics, like yourself!
Plus, your behavior is not only encouraged, it is mandated to even post/join!
So why stir up all this trouble, if you TRULY aim only to help less fortunate writers than yourself...
Pages that writers actually ASK for your critiques exist! GO TO THEM!
It might just be one of the MOST PRODUCTIVE ways you could go about doing... Whatever it is you believe in your heart of hearts you are accomplishing by trolling new writers on a dead poetry site.
God bless, and cheers!

[1809 Black Plague Decem..]

Hellos, Dear, JayG, I find that funny. Chicken Little, LOL
I agree, only I completely went offline,
didn't go out, it was mortifying,
It was outstanding, so evil,
Thank you for refreshing us, but as selfish as it may be,
it is better to be safe than sorry.
great read!
------1809 Black Plague December

[Gibbs505]

Amusing, the "Lady of Shalott" its not, but it rhymes and it gos in the right direction.

And it is better than any bit of doggerel I could do!

[Katriya]

Humorous poem indeed. It made me laugh coz it's true. Though lots of folks suffered for escaping the needle prick. Nice poem!

[knighngale]

hellos, we are in a terrible time; its scary, because the inevitable might evitable and it triggers pandemonium. But there is antibodies now to beat it. :D

[Miss Sharon]

Good, poignant write my friend. I have a friend that refused to get the Covid shot and she ended up in the hospital with it! ~Sharon