if catullus were alive today

                        oh lesbia, i do not
understand the agora today
there be a pandemic in full force
felling the infirm & aged & also some of the young
while the numbers of the sick dying & dead
increase by the hour
so much that if you don't know someone dead today
you will tomorrow
oh lesbia grant me the grace
when i go shopping at the grocery store
& see no one wearing a mask
i beseech you please grant me the grace
to get thru the day
grant me the strength my love
to keep me from knocking
these fools
upside the head