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.​.​. And Counting

from Arrivederci 2020 by Tom Smith

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In the weeks since I wrote this, the US death toll from COVID-19 is just under 190,000. I got the names recited here from the New York Times' Those We've Lost project ( www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/obituaries/people-died-coronavirus-obituaries.html ), naming victims from around the world.

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I see it hasn't taken too long,
To pass Korea and Vietnam
It peaked and then it hit a plateau,
And no one knows how far it will go.

The president kept singing his song,
And everything he told us was wrong,
In spite of everything that he said,
There's a hundred thousand dead.

He left the testing up to the states,
He left the people up to their fates,
His followers aren't up to the task
Of putting on a stupid cloth mask

He said “we'll open up the country,
But who's responsible? It's not me”
That blood is on his hands and his head
From a hundred thousand dead.

Republicans protecting
The businesses from having to take
The steps to make their jobs safe

No matter what the president does
The country cannot be what it was
Our families and friends are laid low
And no one knows how far it will go....

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from Arrivederci 2020, released August 28, 2021
Music: "100,000 Years" by Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley

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Weird Al with more books, JoCo with more jokes, Carlin with more Cthulhu. Since 1985, Tom Smith has been breaking hearts, minds, and laws of propriety and physics with his insane blend of sf/fantasy, Life With Computers, pop culture, politics, and puns. More than twenty albums later, he maintains the best is yet to come. ... more

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