Monday, 23 March 2020

COVID-19 pause

By Rob

All of Sheffield's pubs are shut,
The Red Lions and the Whites,
Up with this we'll have to put,
For many coming nights.

The Closed Shop has closed shop,
Like the Punch Bowl and the Plough,
From Chapeltown to Manor Top,
There lies an eerie silence now.

There's little life in West Street Live,
Or in much of town at all,
No buzzing in the Beehive,
Not even ghosts in Carbrook Hall.

The Brown Bear's in hibernation,
The Roebuck's hiding in the brush,
The Three Cranes chose migration,
The Fat Cat's in the Hollin Bush.

The Red Deer is lightly snoozing,
The Itchy Pig is loudly snoring,
Because no beer and nightly boozing,
Sure makes life profoundly boring.

So it's now last orders at the bar,
At the Tavern and the Gardener's Rest,
No more jazz at the Lescar,
A solemn pausing of Pubquest.

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