when the whole year is over and done,
we will remember who lost, who won.
NOT, I'd insist, Covid or politics
or anything equally trivial
that pales in importance next to NFL football,
which, on the whole, is more convivial
than uneasy voting or “Chinese” diseases.
Who cares who's elected, who dies, who sneezes?
We prefer tales of blitzes and sacks,
details of travails of millionaire quarterbacks.
What matter the cries of “Bring out your dead”
when we can watch guys sucker punched in the head?
Let crazies take over the Congress, the Capitol,
no NFL fan will give a rap at all.
However uneasy lie heads wearing crowns,
what's really important is making first downs.
