A POETIC TRIBUTE TO GOVERNOR CUOMO

Although I live in Illinois, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's daily TV talks give me the incentive to get through another day in self-isolation.   Sir Walter Scott's poem "Lochinvar" is one of my favorites, so this is for you, Governor Cuomo!  (And please see another vote of thanks to Governor Cuomo at: https://joanscovid19blog.blogspot.com/2020/05/another-vote-of-thanks-to-governor-cuomo.html)

With Apologies to Sir Walter Scott

Oh Governor Cuomo came out of the East, 

Preparing to slaughter the cruel COVID beast,

And save for his microphone, weapons had none —

He spoke off the cuff, his language was tough, 

For letting us know, where our country should go - 

There ne'er was the like of Andrew Cuomo!   

He didn’t pull punches, He gave facts with verve, 

He showed the crowd how they had flattened the curve!

But the President watching, became made as hell,

Because he could never give speeches so well! 

And Ivanka was thinking: “‘t'were better I know, 

To have dumped feckless Jared for Andrew Cuomo!”

Parody (c) 2020 Joan D. Levin

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The above verse was inspired by one of my favorite poems.  Here are a few verses from the original by Sir Walter Scott.  

Read it all at: 

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52300/lochinvar

O young Lochinvar is come out of the west, 

Through all the wide Border his steed was the best; 

And save his good broadsword he weapons had none, 

He rode all unarm’d, and he rode all alone. 

So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, 

There never was knight like the young Lochinvar. 

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So stately his form, and so lovely her face, 

That never a hall such a galliard did grace; 

While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, 

And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume; 

And the bride-maidens whisper’d, “’twere better by far 

To have match’d our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.” 

Sir Walter Scott