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United State of Denial

El Presidente don’t Tennessee nothing bad coming, tho’ the global orbitals saw viral things very differently Happy talk tongue taters do eerily Idaho ear mash liquor please Delaware drunk on denial, so Iowa unaware that the body litmus test is gonna crimson cost higher The Ivory home (with the igloo dome) in un-Wash D.C. got the Nevada neon soundbytes Alaska gaslighting Montana malaria nonsense New Jersey devil-speak is a spit-splash of Flo-rida jingo-jingle noise: Colorado pulp fiction vig juice of New York grifter con-fidence West Virginia coal pipes rattling delusional hiss tales untruth Murmuring Utah pseudo-soothsayer hoax salt message mixed in utter Louisiana swamp cackle placating broth Kentucky bourbon breath be mirage-aged facts in a California Death Valley cask Pennsylvania Ave. perps pledging a pathogen allegiance to Indiana vaping jones — Ill moan shills of Illinois cremating bones South of North Dakota are so many fear reservations of minimal test quotas North of South Carolina are very few swine swill flu taste hesitation But *CDC’s beaker manic motion botched the pestilent cure potion Now, from the Oval top to the Pentagon bottom, there’s a United State of denial Flooding the closed border with Rio Grande pandemonium, Texas-sized tears break down the New Mexico wall of pandemic jeers As Georgia’s scientific swells placebo smile at the syringe sound of the Maine coast death knells While El Presidente only coin care to Mississippi make-believe see Missouri monetary glad tidings Toot the little horn of confusion, please ... ‘cause Toto knows we’re not in Kansas anymore, Dorothy *CDC is an acronym for Center for Disease Control. A federal agency whose headquarter is located in Atlanta, Georgia. — Romantic Warrior

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Date: 3/25/2020 7:55:00 PM
Toto too! ... Thanks for the state-by-state COVID update! LOL. Stay healthy, brother Fred! Joy and Light, Gershon
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Date: 3/19/2020 6:29:00 AM
Love it Freddie. Take good care of yourself. Love and Peace.
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Date: 3/17/2020 1:52:00 PM
- We have to rely on our own feelings ... take care, my friend Freddie :) ... we all sit in the same boat ... together we will manage it :) - hugs // Anne-Lise :)
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