The Queue at the Chemists

How can I be expected
To care
About an abstract and nebulous problem like a dying planet
When I'm forced to queue for over 20 minutes
To replenish my cod-liver oil stocks at the chemists?

Let's discuss the merits of our lunches in minute detail
Complain how a particular colleague failed to reply to a particular email
I will seethe at inconveniences as long as I'm able
And try to forget all the famine till it touches my table
And try to forget all thе famine till it touches my table

Contеnt to reduce perception to a singular pixel
Content to let all sights inducing feelings of guilt become blinkered
Nurse and nurture your grudges
Spend time trying to right minor wrongs
Muddle along as bombs melt in the sun

Did you believe the bell-bottomed free-loving tree-huggers? No, I didn't either
It kind of felt like we should maybe do something but in the end doing nothing seemed a lot easier
As we fell to our knees and pleaded a woman in a white coat screamed at us
"You fools! A virus cannot reason with a fever!"
A virus cannot reason with a fever