Covid-19

Published in Solidarity 562:

Earn

Learn

Wed

Be dead

Compete

(if you're elite)

Britain needs pickers
We have a picking drought
Particularly since we’ve kicked our usual pickers out

So pick yourself up
and dust yourself down
Pick up a lift heading out of your town

Here’s your harvest
basket – fill it!
Harnessing the wartime spirit!

Dig for Britain
saw us through
Let’s pick to fight off Covid too!

Let's keep this briefing brief

We don't want the grief

I'll shuffle my sheaf

Turn over a leaf

and pass that question to the medical chief

Janine's video contribution to We Shall Overcome's Isolation Festival, held online on 11 April 2020, featuring the poems:

• Disaffected Middle-Aged Women
• Clap for Carers
• Wherefore Art Thou, Capitalism?
• Unskilled
• Thoughts and Prayers

More than twenty poets read their contributions to the anthology Coronaverses: poems from the pandemic. Buy the book here.

Lyrics by "Borissey"

He was socially close, untamed, unmasked

His magic medicine uncasked

He didn't care so he never asked

He'll brush it off, he's so athletic

The tough guy, leading man aesthetic

No chance it makes him empathetic

He'll rise above like Kilimanjaro

Always survive like the Cult of Skaro

Covid can't hurt Bolsonaro

Lesser beings must feel jealous