Dutch Total Lock Down.... Poem by Sylvia Frances Chan

Dutch Total Lock Down,

The dates?
I don't remember anymore
perhaps it started last 26 March
and will be ended the first of June, perhaps
or the 11 May the kids may go to school again
after so many weeks no regular education
and not all kids are as clever to have the ability to folllow their education
through the o.n.l.i.n.e. version? !

Our premier said on TV
Be good and calm,
Stay at home
Work not in the office
Nor in the schools
Nor in the universities,
o.n.l.i.n.e. is the only option
otherwise there will be a lock down
a total lock down
soonest hereafter
THE TOTAL LOCK DOWN WAS IMPORTED
The premier was visible again on television
He announced the total lock down Is an intelligent lock down
Really? !

A Lock Down IS A LOCKED DOWN
Never an intelligent lock down
Only sweeteners, sweetmakers, creating new phrase
IF he has run out of intelligent words
poor market traders
poor researchers
poor tradesmen
do they think this is an intelligent announcement? !
do they think this is an intelligent step? !
Of course not!

Just an announcement for general safety
our premier said that so easily
of course, he is able to do that, since he is a bachelor,
he is not young anymore, about 50 or older? !
I don't know, but he has in his life no kids who need his attention,
love and care, his old mother (93)has gone to an oldies-home as her own choice, he told us, but about his married state and age: he never told us, we only guessed.

the hospitals must stay open
for emergency Arbeit
nurses come and go to heir work
for emergent Leifheit and corona-care

oh, I am a claustrophobic
this corona pandemic
is hopeless,
caterings are closed for so many weeks
so much present poverty

we are still very lucky,
the Netherlands will not break
the Netherlands has still its glory!
the homeless are well cared,
they have a place to eat and to sleep each day!

The new poverty, the new world poverty
People don't like to talk about that

Look at New York,
the president of their country denies the corona pandemic
he pretends not to bother his country
he does not deepen any further
he always talks his rapid unlogic speeches with a nasal voice

what should Mark Rutte say about that?
Politically remain silent
That other country's head starts to pant
Only the foolish find his daily press conferences brilliant
Our Prime Minister never criticizes that
The eight o'clock news on TV yesterday
Very banal
Still about the city New York
A very good business man there
A well-known funeral entrepreneur
Must be required to place the many dead corpses in cold stores
and refrigerated containers
It's not about the money
There are too many bodies
To give them all a dignified funeral
The local residents and passers-by
complained about the bad smell
In the end many aid workers arrived
Take the many many corpses out of the containers
What a condition, what a stink,
Because their president denies corona pandemic by saying
Our country doesn't have to lock down
Okay, trade and economy must continue
The country is too big and the over-worded president denied all his
untrue words and told the public that he was not correctly understood
This is allowed as a tradesman, but not as the head of a big state!

OK, about that funeral director, poor man
says the mayor
Why not knock on the door when there was an huge emergency?

dear mayor, beautiful and well said,
but why did he have to tell you? It was then in dire need,
every mayor must pay attention to his citizens,
and must immediately help where you need to help
you hadn't done that,
now you blame him for not asking,
now you must help all those thousands of unemployed
who are queuing for financial support
otherwise you will have more dying citizens

I dunno anymore, this is a hopeless case
those people are in the rat trap, that you know
they will also die if they have no food,

Dear mayor
help to fill that big hole!

there has grown in me a biggest appreciation for our premier,
who started the Lock Down as the first, so that our country gets less coronavirus attacks, and so less victims of this corona-pandemic,
we are happy to have an intelligent premier....


© Sylvia Frances Chan - All Rights Reserved
Friday the First Of May 2020
Earliest Dutch Morn, still in corona quarantine cycle,
according to corona pandemic period,
lock down,
"dutch intelligent lock down" (Mark Rutte, prime minister)