Riffs on Covid
By Kathryn Atkins, Long Beach Branch
Covid TV Shows:
The Untouchables: “The Unhuggables.”
Hill Street Blues: now “Bedside Blues”
Song Remakes:
West Side Story’s
“I Feel Pretty” = “I Feel S**itty”
“When You’re a Jet” = When You’re in Bed”
The Battle Hymn of the Pandemic
Rhymes with Pandemicated:
- De-pandemicated
- Isolated
- Under-aided
- Abdicated
- Overrated
- Underrated
- Complicated
- Unanticipated
- Age-correlated
- Co-created
- Fight-deflated
- Manipulated
- Desiccated
- Emasculated
- Disassociated
- De-graduated
- Doubly-hated
- De-populated
- Extricated
- De-stimulated
- Anti-titillated
- Over-Violated
- Vaccine-Slated
- Space-invaded!!
©2020 by Kathryn Atkins. Read more at My Piano Hands: A Flash Memoir Collection, the newest book by Kathryn Atkins, at www.mypianohands.com.