Ted Littleford
In a couple of days
Comes the holiday
That Christians call Pentecost
And Jews Shavuot
The Ten Commandments
Will be given again
Don’t do this, do that
Here’s how, here’s when
Don’t infect your mother or your father
Wear a mask, you sons and daughters
I am life, not death
Therefore murder not
Your neighbor with your breath
Or bear false witness
In scientific ignorance
Who keeps distant from the other,
Grows closer to me.
These alterations Sinaitic
Permitted in times pandemic
Changes authorized by the Powers That Be
Including you and me.