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Richard Tonkin's blogSpecial"Live with the Virus"
Black FridayBlack Friday comes to call
Free face masks in Rundle Mall
Our Head Health Honcho, Nicola Spurrier
Send You Home In a Toohey's TubHere we are from New Sourh Wales
Where Coronvirus hails
Grab your pigskin, have a rub
We'll send you home in a Tooheys Tub
Sanity ClausePeople in America grumble and grump
cursing the Democracy that gave them Donald Trump
But down in Australia, in the town of Adelaide
they're proudly showing everyone how Donald Trumps are made
South Of The Border, Down Warrnambool WayWritten not in honour of, but in deepest respect for tonight's closure of the SA/Vic border to even SA residents. South of the border, down Warrnambool way There's a girl I like to see who drinks at the Lady Bay The radio told me, I can no longer play South of the Border, down Warrnambool Way Ch: And she sighed as she whispered "Corona" never knowing how soon I could travel And I lied as I said that I'd phone her South of the Border, down Warrnambool way
Covid Has No HeartI met her on a Winter night
in swirling Melbourne mist
three weeks since the moon shone bright
and loving shadows kissed
Living in our lockdown homes
the law kept us apart
but Covid rode with Cupid
for Covid has no heart
Lock Downtime"The situation's getting grim"
said ScoMo on the telly
"I need to go away and trim
my growing COVID belly
I'm heading down to Melbourne
to get some Lock Down Time
I'm not some privileged
Deja LooSaturday night I hung my head in shame
Society, I told myself, has just itself to blame
To have it happen now is worse than when it happened then
Pub With No Beer 2020It's lonesome away from your pint of pale ale
The South Aussie Government's new Epic Fail
is hotels to serve you schnitties with cheer
but a parmi's no fun in a pub with no beer
The bottle shop's open, and we reckon that's beaut
we take our booze home and get pissed as a newt
But
Dont Worry Be AppyHere's a little song I stole
when in lockdown on the dole
Don't Worry, Be Appy
Download software to your phone
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The Walking DreamIt's Monday of Week Two
of the Walking Dream
When you wake up
you're still inside it
Sitting on the loo
counting your rolls
It's reality
your mind's denied it
Five At A Wedding![]() Gathering in public is gone
A very different way of life
we're living from here on
Go a
The Time Of Your WifeAs I roved out on a Monday Night
a-running from my wife
I tried to find a place to hide
and not get into strife
but Adelaide on Monday Night
has only bars with pokies
or, if you're really lucky
quiz nights and karaokes
Dancing the Schadenfreude WaltzI've thought up a point of view
I've found a headline of proof
All that's needed, isn't it?
Never mind the truth
I read it on the internet
made me want to cry
Doesn't really matter
who wrote
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