The World is Going Mad

The world is going mad.

I would

Go to the pub

With friends. But the pub

Is closed

And heaven only knows

When it will reopen.

The world is going mad.

I would choose to lose

Myself in a book,

But one can not shut

Oneself forever, away.

The world is going mad.

I would eat in a cafe

But a takeaway

Is all I can have.

And the BMA say

That diners in restaurants need masks.

The world is going mad.

We are told

That lovers (from a different household)

May not play at home.

Draconian laws, never prevent...