I do recall now many many years ago
In southern Israel at our friend’s moshav
We witnessed what we’d only heard was so
The chicken meant for dinner with its head chopped off
It ran berserk in circles, to and fro
So why am I retelling this old memory?
Its image came to mind on Rachel Maddow’s show
Describing headless government’s confusing story
Where government should quarterback the nation’s means
Of getting and distributing the limited supplies
Instead we suffer lies from Trump and truly harebrained schemes
In deadly competition states are forced to vie
I didn’t eat that chicken, loss of appetite
My stomach feels the same it did those years ago
More than a thousand people dead, now gone from sight
And when this plague will finally peak it’s hard to know
3/26/20
