Got my second shot Moderna
And I’m feeling kinda great.
Got my second shot Moderna.
I was early, couldn’t wait.
Got my second shot Moderna
Up on St. Ann’s Avenue
Where the golden sun was shining
And the sky was brilliant blue.*
Got my second shot Moderna
Up here in Mott Haven
Across the Bronx from the small house
Wherein Poe wrote “The Raven.”**
I checked in with my QC code
They said, “SJ, welcome back!
Just go on in here to the school,
Talk to the man in black.”***
He waved me to the lunchroom
Where the tables were all set up
And nurses, docs, and volunteers
Were wearing sterile get-ups.****
The nurse at table number 5
Swabbed my arm and stuck it
Then she smoothed on it a Band-aid
And said to me, “Good luck! It*****
Might swell up a little
And you may start feeling sick
But if you do, don’t worry —
That part is over quick.”
Then she sent me to the gym to wait
A fifteen minute span.
I sat there and I people-watched,
Enjoyed my fellow man.
When time was up I headed out
To E. 138th
To get café con leche
And some cake to celebrate(th).”******
So as of now I’m fully vaxxed
And it’s a happy day
And I hope you all soon get your shots
And COVID goes away!
*You saw that coming, right?
**Irrelevant, but true.
***It wasn’t Johnny Cash, no.
****Just cut me some slack, okay?
*****Not what you were expecting?
******Okay, that one’s awful.
