The High Price Of Intransigence Poem by John Sensele

Blackboard surfaces I rub
Unsure if viruses I scrub
Putting my family at risk
Cos for the greater I whisk and frisk


When some students covid risk they ignore
As ignorance and its diffidence distance grow
Face masks they struggle to wear
Making it harder wrong attitudes to bear

When infection cases in society soar
With fewer citizens in an uproar
Considering lives, wives and knives they jeopardize
If sanity and reality they don't aggrandize

in open tombs cadavers descend
When asinine attitudes ascend
Until six feet under they fly in a single file
Worshipping the cry of ludicrous lie

Charlatans push upfront
With the vigour of an affront
In which the lure and value they bought
Shutting tight and uptight truth lessons taught.