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title: A note from Phil Collins
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# [A note from Phil Collins](https://blog.americanprep.org/blog/poems-by-phil-collins)

 Written by [Phil Collins](https://blog.americanprep.org/blog/author/phil-collins) | Apr 12, 2020 2:00:00 AM

Please enjoy this sympathetic, timely, and humorous poem from Phil Collins. 

A quick covid run to store

Recently I ventured out,  
Into a land of dread and doubt,  
To learn what this was all about,  
This fear that gripped us all.

A parking place I sought to find  
Saved for the handicapped and blind,  
Until I all but lost my mind,  
And found a place to park.

Grudgingly I walked the mile.  
And took a cart with empty smile.  
And headed for a busy isle;  
When someone grabbed my arm.

With far less smile I turned around  
And faced the lad who had me bound;  
With sneer, I asked if mind was sound.  
And choked at his reply.

“I’m sorry sir there is a line  
And folks have waited quite some time   
That hopefully they might item find  
Within these cinder walls.”

“Of a line, I’m not AWARE”  
I cursed into his rattled stare.  
“I’m afraid it forms back there   
Where horizon fades from view.”

With shoulders slumped I began  
March of prisoned hopeless man  
Who now was forced in rain to stand  
For what was said two hours.

As slithering snail, I weakly crawled  
And shouted as my march was stalled.  
“Keep pace you wandering sheep,” I called  
As people moved away.

At last, I reached an open door  
Which gave an entrance to the store.  
stood there a sign, “we have no more.”  
Of milk and other things.

In anger I to home made haste,  
“Blessings” gave to human race,  
Of milk, I’d surely lost my taste,  
Then called sweet spouse from kitchen near:

“Tomorrow, we’ll need eggs.”

Phil Collins

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