COVID COVE

COVID  COVE

Are those days  gone

When I could  ‘ahem!’

To clear my throat,

When I could cough twice

To catch a person’s attention,

When I could sneeze and

People around bless me.

 

Now I can’t sneeze, sniffle,

Or cough and spit my phlegm.

Already those in the cove have

noted me for coughing  and

sneezing twice,  ‘cause of the

pungent refuse strewed across.

 Iam cautious  now.

One more of those natural reflexes

Of mine, which are beyond restraint,

Well!  I will be quarantined,

till tests prove against  Covid.