The boys were eLearning Nestled up with their screens Wife and I were so thankful Not all three were teens

Conspiracy theories Consuming our souls As Facebook friends Did the work of Russian trolls

Cooped up for so long All getting neurotic Thank God for wifi And of course, Joe Exotic

But in the middle of it all We learned to slow down And to make each meal stretch With no meat to be found

When it finally ended We'd learned a thing or two About human connection Thanks to what we'd been through

We stopped seeing everything As a reason to hate Doctors, nurses, and teachers We began to appreciate

Unfortunately it took a virus And a hundred thousand lives For us to come together And finally realize

Our #1 job That's been with us since birth Is to look out for one another Take better care of the earth

Yes all of that happened In the course of one year Even while murder hornets Had us running in fear

And now it's 2040 And the memories are fleeting Oh crap I gotta go I'm late for a zoom meeting