Partners in Carnage

Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis

Are leading the lemmings into the fire.

The two governors are throwing more

Wood onto the funeral pyre.

 

Each is hoping that voters will give him

Praise for his cringeworthy COVID response,

Which was never very aggressive

And always displayed more nonchalance.

 

Partners in carnage, they hope to score

Political points while people get sick.

And people are dying. Can't these two

Numbskulls do their arithmetic?

 

COVID numbers are rising again.

The delta variant is spreading fast.

And yet the two behave as though

COVID is a thing of the past.

 

Banning mandates for masks in schools

When numbers of cases are rising? What?

Their irresponsible, heartless, and thoughtless

Behavior is a punch in the gut.

 

It's all about choice, DeSantis says,

Which shows his reasoning's not so keen.

Kids don't have a choice in the matter,

For kids under twelve can't get the vaccine!

 

The two Republican ideologues

Do not want government "intrusion."

They are entrenched in hypocrisy

And have abandoned truth for illusion.

 

Patients are filling the hospitals

In both of their states--an indication

That they have a serious health crisis.

What a frightening situation!

 

Younger people are losing their lives

In greater numbers than before.

It makes no sense to abandon reason

And common sense as numbers soar.

 

DeSantis and Abbott have blood on their hands.

But, obviously, they don't care.

I'm glad they’re not my governor.

Floridians and Texans beware.

-by Bob B (8-11-21)