Tuesday, May 5, 2020

A Covid Tale| At a NL Library


“The (Virus) Shipping News”





“Come, thou Tortoise”

“The Time Has Come to Tell”

“A Whale of a Tale”

About

“Operation Vanished”

“Folks Left to Die”

By just the

“Random Passage” (of a virus)


It Became

“The Heart’s Obsession”

Just after the

“Killer Snow”

or

Snowmageddon (as it was popularly called)

Here in

“Sweetland”



The Sign on my Father’s House”

“Unveiled”

DON’T

“Come From Away!”

Or

“Send More Tourists…”

Or it will be

“Murder on the Rock”

In

“The Newfoundland Tongue”



Seriously, by’s, these are

“Haunted Shores”

“No Place for Fools”

“Turmoil as Usual”





I’m telling ya, we’re in this for  

“The Long Run”

There’s

“No Turning Back”
No

“Escape Hatch”


“To Be Frank”

“Here Be Dragons” (virus kind)

“The Enemy on our Doorstep”



“From the Voices of Nurses”

We’re 

“In Deep Water”

“Suspended State”

“Fish out of Water”



“The Big Why?”

Dunno, but

“Don’t Tell the Newfoundlanders”


So, NO MORE…

“A Trip to Newfoundland & Labrador”

“Exploring the Avalon”

“Backpacking Across Newfoundland”

“The Day the World Came to Gander”

“Finishing School”

“Gotta Get me Moose, B’y”

“Going to the Ice”

“On Poppy’s Beach”

“The Birthday Lunch”

“Corner Boys”

“Down by Jim Long’s Stage”

“Adventures in Nanny’s Attic”

Don’t even get

“Lost in Newfoundland”



I’m tellin’ ya , DON’T Get

“Caught”

Or  be

“A Hard Ticket”

Or it’ll  be

“Time of Treason”

“Bubbly Troubly”

But it’s ok to return to being

“Maids who Brew and Bake”

“A Splendid Boy”.



Look, we’ve been hit by a

“Tsunami” (viral)

“Caught”

“Between a Rock & a Hard Place”
“Left to Die”

“Absent Friends”

“Waiting for Time” (to pass)



Public Shamers here

“Galore”

So, it’s like  


“Small Game Hunting at the Local Gun Club”

“Down to the Dirt”

“Son of a Critch”

“No Holds Barred”

“No Punches Pulled”

& many saying

“No Apologies from Me”



Overall - as is our destiny - we remain the

“Colony of Unrequited Dreams”

Still, with

“Empty Nets”



BUT, we

“Hold Fast”

In our

“Bay of Hope”



And, ironically, all this time, we lamented that

“Sposin’ I Dies in a Dory”

& “We’ll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night”

&  “Death on the Ice”





“It’s Like a Dream to Me”

But, hopefully, soon, it’s

“Coming to an End”




Signed

“The Outport People”

(Aka ‘The Boat People”)



Otherwise, known as

“Custodian(s) of Paradise”

Or

“Creatures of the Rock”