You Act Evil Like Voldemort: Corona Virus Conversation Poems

The pandemic has my students, like most kids, stuck at home, but we're still writing. We've been using our writing both to do the normal stuff like develop writing skills and express ourselves, and also to wrestle with the strangeness and worries of life this spring. Sometimes it helps just to write directly to what's bugging or hurting you, and so we wrote poems to Covid19. We imagined we could talk to it, and if it wanted, it could talk back. We tried to get to know it a little. What was its essence? What did it like? Here are some of the results. I think they will surprise you.

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A Conversation with Corona

By: JoJo 2020

Hello corona virus, what is your name?

Oh, of course, your name is Susan.

You are not fun at all; you sing the saddest of opera songs,

You are a sea of sadness; you ride through the streets of Bellingham in your fastest sports car.

People stop to stare when you go anywhere.

You wear ballgowns and bracelets, high heels and

Slippers and you drink from sauce-covered dippers.

You swim in the lake of death that is so dark blue of inky black stars.

You shook hands with zombies and went with the frombies.

Acid rain poured from the sky wherever you walked.

Your favorite color is purple: you wear it all the time.

For anger and sadness put together, purple is divine.

The zombies you met eat dumpster food.

They look like toads.

They try to slice your head off with surgery knives

And eat you like baloney.

You ran off and pooped in their faces and threw soap

In their eyes.

And you act evil like Voldemort.

Covid 19 Lockdown

By Kiana

Hey Virus,

What’s up? You done infecting and injecting?

‘Cause we’ve started inspecting on your trails,

It’s gotten quite stale but we’ll find a way to get rid of you!

(Once and for all) So better skedaddle!

Take a break, eat some cake, bathe in a lake. Chill out man!

And so my friend, I’m telling you now,

Just take a vacation, turn into a club,

Just let your thoughts sway. And then

Think of the commotion you’re causing.

And my thought is without you we’ll be able to go,

sing, dance, and play with our friends’ relations and ourselves without any worry we’ll catch a cold or virus!

Dear Covid 19

By Ella

Hi, why are you killing so many people?

Are you mad?

Did humans do something to you?

Do you need help?

Anyway let's just talk and get to know each other. Hi I’m Ella I already know your name, Covid 19 or Coronavirus, can I call you Co? Ok I'm going to anyway! Well onto the questions

What's your favorite colors? Green, yellow, and black, hmm i can see why they're like toxic waste and hazard sign colors, mine are like all cool colors

What's your favorite genre of music? Rock in’ roll, cool ok so you need to know something about me i don't really have a favorite of anything so ya, don't have a favorite

This is kinda random but what's your favorite type of terrain? Rocky mountain peaks, ooh yeah that would be fun to rock climb! Hmmm…. Mine would probably a beach idk if that counts but whatever

Again random but do you have a car? No, but you would like a bombing plane, umm that's kinda creepy……. Well let's just keep going i guess

If you could be any animal/supernatural creature what would you be? A bear or alien, cool I would be... a mermaid (the good kind) or a cat

If you were a body of water what would you be? Violent ocean, wow, i would probably be perfect water for surfing and boogie boarding

No offense but if you had hair what style would it be? Mohawk, sick i probably just go simple and keep mine

What's your favorite food? Anything spicy, oh i don't really care for spicy things mine would just be

Umm...what else? Ooh, what type of weather is your favorite? Ocean storm that can kill sailors bruh that's just messed up! Mine would be maybe sunny with some shade

What's your favorite tool? Chainsaw, #creepy Well again i don't have one

What genre of books do you like? Murder mystery WHY ARE YOU SO CREEPY!? Anyway i like fantasy adventure

What is your all time favorite book? IT, ok? Mine would be…..ohh i can't decide there's too many to pick from

What is your favorite board game? Game Of Life, ehh not my favorite but it's your choice mine would be Stack Sushi (ok, yeah i know it's not really a board game but i don't care)

What's your favorite drink? Coffee, eww no offense but i hate that mine..hmm.. Maybe root beer?

Well it's been nice talking but i have to go now bye

Sincerely, your new friend Ella

Ps. stop killing people please