COVID-19: … and Meanwhile (4-19-20)

States work to flatten the curve 
Citizens try to conserve 
Meanwhile our air 
And animals, beware 
They’ll not get the care they deserve 
 
States work to assist the schools 
They’re employing all of their tools 
While Trump’s EPA 
Spends most of its day 
Rescinding the Obama rules 
 
With millions in utter despair 
No healthcare, no jobs anywhere 
He should fill in the gap 
But does he give a crap?  
No, he’s upending Obamacare 
 
Journalist job’s gotten tough 
The daily briefings are rough 
They ask a fair question 
He mocks their profession 
And Border patrol search their stuff 
 
Improving PPE distribution 
Streamlining their execution 
States coordinate 
While Trump, he can’t wait 
To lay waste to our constitution 
 
The states, they have great plans to share 
Their equipment in ways that are fair 
And Wheeler’s plan 
Is to do what he can 
To spew mercury into our air 
 
Each governor has played a role 
In working us out of this hole 
When Trump should have led 
He’s focused instead 
On ending the big war on coal 

The whole world is in this, it’s true 
We must work as one to come through 
What did Trump do 
It’s sad but it’s true 
Held up the funding for WHO 
 
With 15 officials embedded 
All of WHO’s strategies vetted 
what WHO knew, Trump knew  
and so, what did he do? 
He lied ‘cause the truth’s what he dreaded 
 
The early response was delayed 
Stimulus checks still unpaid 
What does he do? 
To help people through? 
Work to overturn Roe v. Wade 
 
Some work with the opposition 
To improve our dire conditions 
To Nancy and Mitch 
He makes a pitch 
To adjourn them to fill his positions 
 
With a pandemic now on their hands 
What to do, the states do understand 
But the DOI 
Is focused, no lie 
On gutting our federal lands 
 
The DACA nurse came long ago 
Works day and night now you know 
In the COVID ER 
But Trump now would bar 
her from staying, she might have to go 
 
When US asylum they seek 
Because their condition is bleak 
Trump gives the order 
to close the border 
and not treat the ones who are weak 
 
In March 18K were deported 
Hopes of the children are thwarted 
He gave the order 
To seal up the border 
His view of America’s distorted 
 
To do anything, they are all willing 
The frontline needs to get top billing… 
From Trump, but oh no 
He intends, don’t you know… 
To open more parkland to drilling 
 
Our hats are off to all of them 
Who work till wee hours a.m. 
But Trump has a plan… 
End the Pesticide ban 
To help out his buddy Dow Chem 
 
The state set up bold new benchmarks 
On ambitious plans they embark 
But Trump has his sights, 
not in the spotlight 
Of shrinking our national parks 
 
He claims that he really does care 
About our health and welfare 
Yet on that same day 
He opens a way 
To spew more toxins into our air 
 
As the state of affairs grew more dire 
Fauci played Trump’s pacifier 
And meanwhile Wheeler 
The old wheeler dealer 
Lets mercury levels go higher 
 
Small business clinging to life 
Gig workers feeling much strife 
Meanwhile Bernhardt 
Observes with cold heart 
As our parks come under the knife 
 
To states he does transfer the onus 
To cover up for his slowness 
“Liberate Minnesota” 
His new campaign quote, a 
COVID-19 crisis bonus 
 
Those in his circle are told 
When asked by the Press, to withhold 
“Unnamed sources are fiction!” 
he then tweets with conviction 
On the truth he has a stranglehold 
 
To liberate will require testing 
In that we must be investing 
But the feds will not lead 
As much as we plead 
His duties, Trump is divesting 
 
Now the red states move forward with glee 
Following Trump’s new decree 
He’s a sociopath  
And he’s on the war path 
To crush anyone who’s a “D” 
 
From December to March oh did he 
Sing praises of his buddy Xi 
For all his transparency  
But oh now apparently 
It’s Biden who’s China’s lacky 
 
Daily he feeds us with lies 
To question him’s really not wise 
With narcissist needs 
He brags and misleads…. 
I offer a word to the wise 
 
Support the free press if you can 
Insist on a voting rights plan 
The planet, promote 
And please, please, please vote… 
Out of office this horrid con-man