Blame It on COVID

 

 

Looking for an excuse

For some scheme that fell through?

Blame it on COVID!

That’s what you can do.

 

Want to send home workers

And make them redundant?

Blame it on COVID!

That’s a working solution.

 

Integrity legislation pending

But cannot now be passed?

Blame it on COVID!

Now that’s an easy task. 

Price gouging being aired

But they say it’s not really so?

Blame it on COVID

As though we didn’t know.

 

 

Most vulnerable students not in line

With the online approach?

Blame it on COVID!

It’s COVID that encroached.

 

Afraid to go online

Without wearing a mask?

Blame it on COVID

Then complete your task. 

 

Not enough in the Senate

To vote on a critical matter?

Blame it on COVID!

And stop unnecessary chatter.

 

Water shortage like before

And even getting worse?

Blame it on COVID!

For sure, COVID is the curse.

 

Different strokes for different folk

And money still talks?

Blame it on COVID!

And be careful where you walk.

 

Vaccines by appointment

But you can’t get an appointment?

Blame it on COVID!

On COVID you should vent.

 

More people dying now

Than were ever dying before?

Blame it on COVID!

There is likely to be more.

 

 

Gun violence on the increase

And more guns still coming in?

Blame it on COVID

And bear it with a grin.

                                                              

Church membership falling away

And offerings low?

Blame it on COVID!

That’s why this is so.

 

Trade Unions going silent

And their workers in despair?

Blame it on COVID

For COVID doesn’t care.

 

One Union being torn apart

And inside fighting, the glitch?

Blame it on COVID!

What a horrible sales pitch!

 

 

Fuel gone through the ceiling

And paying more at the pump?

Blame it on COVID!

COVID is making us grunt.

 

Some roads are getting repaired

While others are ignored?

Blame it on COVID!

COVID is an eye-sore.

 

CXC will likely get it wrong

For the second year on a stretch?

Blame it on COVID!

COVID is a wretch.

 

No Crop-Over jump-up this year

Or the celebration is mute?

Blame it on COVID!

COVID is surely a brute.

 

If we don’t become a Republic

By this coming Independence,

Blame it on COVID!

COVID is a nuisance.

 

 

No answers to the many questions

And more questions than answers?

Blame it on COVID!

It’s the new cancer.

 

You are failing at most things

Just like you failed before?

Blame it on COVID!

COVID is at the door.

 

You have run out of scapegoats

And have no one to blame?

COVID is ready and available

So just hop on that train.

 

Anything that goes wrong

And you think you are not the reason,

Blame it on COVID!

After all, it’s COVID season.

 

 

COVID is the scapegoat

For everything that’s going wrong

It’s no longer the devil,

We’ve found another clown.

 

Stewart Russell © June 16, 2021