inspired by Fandango’s One Word Challenge (FOWC) of 16 November 2020, aberration.
An old woman from the Azores,
Was forced to start living indoors,
She kept well out of sight,
Neither fresh air nor light,
Could not even get out to the stores.
Many people would probably say that 2020 is an aberration, that we have put our normal lives on hold, just while the pandemic passes. But I’m not so sure. Has anybody else noticed how many “once in a lifetime” events have happened in the last few years? Forest fires, floods, storms, etc. We even had a plague of locusts in Africa at the start of the year. Not to mention the pandemic itself, which is merely the latest in a long line of SARS-type illnesses. Unrelated? Well, if I were religious I might be reading “Revelation” right about now.
Mister Bump 
Yay! I love a limerick!
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Lol I know what you mean. Certainly seems to be something strange going on, fancy the whole wird vurtually being in lockdown. Love the poem!
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Exodus – The ten plagues of Egypt!
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Heres hoping the people can force the governments to give us our lives back for 2021. WOnderfully fun limerick too my friend. Nice post!
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I’m not sure how much any government has to do with anything, tho.
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I am. They turned a virus into an armageddon by blowing out of all proportion and leaving 90% of the country destitute. It wont go back to normal unless they say it will and I dont think they ever will unless we force them.
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There is promising news about vaccines from several pharmaceutical companies, so maybe in 2021, once the vaccines are widely available and enough people get vaccinated and the daily infection rates, hospitalizations, and deaths drop to close to zero, the governments around the globe will open up our societies once again.
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Hmm, I’m doubt they’ve all gained as much power over people as Hitler and Saddam had why give it back to the people. The governments have us all like sheep in beartraps now.
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It’s the end of the world as we know it.
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And I feel fine 🤣
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I set you up for it 🙂
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Limerick for the win!
I’m not religious but if I see a pale horse I’m going to ground 😉
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You’re just a neighsayer 🤣
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🤣
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Those two bios you wrote sound like good reads, btw. It won’t surpreise you that I never heard of either. I don’t suppose anyone ever made audiobooks of them, did they? Not Amazon.
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I’d actually be shocked if you had! 🤣 And no—sadly no audio books. (And thanks 🙏)
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They were both available on Amazon UK both as hardbacks and Kindle downloads, but I tend not to use Amazon at all.
The first place I ever worked in the US was Va, just outside of DC, and I picked up loads of civil war books there that went far, far deeper than anything I had come across in the UK.
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Civil War is big business here 😉 My book is not really about the war itself but rather about how one progressive-minded woman experienced the era.
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I’d like to jump on the bandwagon and say, “This is the end!” but the platform is pretty crowded by now. Between WWI folks saying, “This is the war to end all wars,” the Spanish flu survivors saying “This is the worst epidemic ever,” the 1930s folks going on about their Great Depression… There’s hardly room to squeeze on. 😉
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I think the numan race has no limit to its ability to indulge in hyperbole 🤣. I’ll stick with things we can qualtify.
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Good limerick. 2020 has been a horrible year, even for those who have not experienced personal tragedy, I suspect that the Chief Exec. of Pfizer is fairly happy though!
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