Waiting for the New World

from Covid Diaries by Jack DeValera

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Wind is shaking the trees
Clouds are splitting the light
Outside making me freeze
New World into my life
Unfamiliar Breeze
Into my lungs and into my life

So after all that,
I guess I can say we are free now from lockdown,
the stasis has stopped now and we can somehow,
rush out and force all our own cherries to pop now
and get back to our normal lives. Side salad or fries?
We're like two virgins on their wedding night,
Pulling her frock down so frantically,
let's roll and rock now, so eager to please
We'll learn to not crown ourselves by decree.
I was the master of my own world but the world's taught me now.
What have we just been ....living through?
We thought it was a temporary pause
But it seems more ...pivotal
This is not like Lehman's or JFK man. This is ....Biblical.
And that's not just my tendency to be so cynical
This Virus. This Ritual. These vitamins and minerals.
They're searching for a vaccine and it seems so pitiful.
A Vaccine for what?
Greed, hubris and indifference?
No medicine to cure that one Jack.
This is a whole new experience.
Trouble I can't foresee,
I close my eyes to blind myself,
I need to get more sleep,
Cause I've been reading those think pieces thinking thoughful.
About carnal rage and ways unlawful
I believe we're in the larval phase of something awful.
We were waiting for this new world to come and now its here.
God forgive us all.

CHORUS

I'm your father and your my child.
One, two and three.
For guidance I know you look unto me
We'll travel well together out there on the salt salt sea.
You'll have to be my guide though. Your guide, I can't be.
I'm Job from the Book of Job.
In Tom Thumb's Blues I'm Mr. Jones.
Lent out my throat. Tough task to take.
I'm Tom Cruise in a mask and cape. Fidelio. Fidelio.
I thought I knew the secret word,
but now I know I'll never know. Now I'll never know.
Paleolithic.
It goes back that far, back through mathematics and physics,
Human understanding can't comprehend, our knowledge has limits,
But every day we Grow
But Every day we grow...
The small moments will bring together they said it on the Radio
Gingo Gingo, bring me back an Eggio
We sang that every day as we were walking the kids.
Thank you Disney Plus you helped us all through this.
So Fa La Ti Do
So Fa La Ti Do
It'll bring out the best in us.
Or So they say so.
Or so they say so
Corn fields with pestilence on every row
Mere Anarchy, from Peru to Mexico,
Dead bodies dumped down the bottom of buried holes,
Joshua blow down them walls of Jericho
Cause its a New World.

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from Covid Diaries, released July 31, 2020

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