it’s not real, silly, just go back to sleep

By Sonam Kaloti, Arts Editor


Fruit bats bathing in soup at dinnertime,
koalas burning, three-year olds dying;
don’t lose your head, just keep denying.

Relax corona kid, you’re in your prime:
bought a plane ticket despite hating flying.
Fruit bats bathing in soup at dinnertime,
koalas burning, three-year olds dying,

flowered skeletons dancing to ragtime
up-tempo donning gas masks and crying,
“we don’t want to consume them!” Defying
fruit bats bathing in soup at dinnertime,
koalas burning, three-year olds dying.

Don’t lose your head, just keep denying.