My Busy Lockdown Day

My Busy Lockdown Day

This enforced lockdown isolation

Has turned my daily life upside down -

My old routine’s all shot to shit

Now I’m not supposed to walk to town

No longer getting up to go to work

Means I don’t need to set the alarm

But this doesn’t mean I get to have a lie-in

Or that the day passes all peaceful and calm

Now broadband communication’s a wonderful thing,

And so is social media and things of that type,

Cause everything happens online these days

As we all use Messenger, Zoom and Skype

The day’s simply packed with new activities

There’s just so much I’ve got to do

It’s just one bloody thing after another

Doing many things I didn’t know I knew

After early sessions of yoga and meditation,

There’s DIY, gardening and reading

Then I’m learning to play saxophone

Tho’ my ears have started bleeding

After lunch I learn Swahili and Serbo-Croat,

And other skills that are life-enhancing

I’m also looking into darts and scuba-diving,

Decorating birthday cakes, and belly dancing

Later I’ll re-arrange the titles in my book-case

To form an interesting background

You never know where they’ll be looking

When the video meeting comes around

I’m building a scale model of Buckingham Palace

Using only patience, glue and matchsticks

My 5000-piece jigsaw dominates the lounge

And I’m completing it naked, just for kicks

Tonight I’m shouting at the neighbours

Using many expletives and such

I’m not requesting any help from them –

It’s just that I don’t like them very much

Tomorrow I’ll bake bread using only sawdust

Or other random items I can get

I’ve removed the labels from all my cans

Now it’s like playing nutritional Russian Roulette

I’m wondering just how many combinations

Of sandwich fillings I can possibly make

I’m slowly crawling up my newly-decorated walls

How much more of this am I expected to take?

I’m bored of shouting at politicians on the telly

There’s only one answer that I need to get –

Because now that time has lost all its meaning

Is it too early to start drinking yet?

Copyright Andy Fawthrop 2020