These lines are to commemorate my spectacular failure to win the North Street Book Prize with my 2024 collection “After Spruce: Poems in the Manner of Tom Jenks’ ‘Spruce’ During the Time of the Coronavirus Pandemic”.

Originally published Infection House July 2020

#ExperimentalPoetry #poem #poetry #PoetryCollection #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #Australia #UnitedStates #coronavirus #COVID19 #pandemic #DonaldJTrump #ScottMorrison #GladysBerejiklian #InjectingDisinfectant #DisasterCapitalists #TravelBubble #Hairdressers #FluBro #Covidiots #WobbleRoom #Coronasplaining #ArmchairVirologists #Ventilators #HardLockdown #ZoonoticDiseases #UnderTheDoona #tears #covfefe

People are insane. This woman is giving advice to a new mom who doesn’t want grandparents coming over until the baby is a couple months old.

Reply on the left was written to the new mom today by the same mom who made the post on the right a few months ago.

These #covidiots want to make your kids sick so theirs aren’t the only ones suffering.

#reddit

> Idaho Banned Vaccine Mandates. Activists Want to Make It a Model for the Country.
https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-vaccine-bill-medical-freedom-act-maha

Well, that surplus population ain't gonna decrease on its own. You gotta to #CullTheHerd.

In news of the #stupid from #Idaho.

And so the #CosmicJoker laughs.
Blessed be the #DivineHumor.

#BringBackMeasles #BringBackIronLungs #KarensGoneWild #KarenStrikesAgain #health #COVIDIOTS

That surplus population ain't gonna reduce itself.

> US drops COVID vaccine recommendations for healthy children, pregnant women
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-drops-covid-vaccine-recommendations-healthy-children-pregnant-women-2025-05-27/

#CullTheHerd #COVIDIOTS

#DebunkTheFunk | #COVID is not a racial bio-weapon (duh)

https://youtu.be/1IgPWY9sIEw
#RFKJr #TheRealRFKJr #conspiracism #CovidCranks #covidiots #disinfo #CovidDisinfo #USpol #USpolitics #TrumpCabinetPicks #antiscience #Covid19

Not fit to serve.

Judge tosses ‘vexatious’ Canadian Armed Forces vaccine mandate lawsuit over lack of ‘material facts’

their pleadings were devoid of “material facts” or “evidence”

various COVID-19 vaccines are labelled an ‘experimental gene therapy’ and ‘biologics,’ without any basis for these statements established,”

#Cdnpoli #Justice #NutCases #AntiVaxxers #Cons #Health #CovIdiots

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/caf-vaccine-mandate-lawsuit-dismissed