Were I Only On a Boat / by Brian Kunde

Were I Only On a Boat
by Brian Kunde

(with apologies to Arlen and Harburg)

Just a year past we were shippin’;
With strangers gaily trippin’;
On the Bay we were afloat.
Now we’re social isolatin’,
And it’s really kinda gratin’
That we can’t be on a boat.
We are all left high and dryus
While hidin’ from the virus,
Surrounded by a moat;
And I think it rather tragic
I can’t do that Old Spice magic
And declaim “I’m on a boat!”

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Were I Only On a Boat

from Twenty Twenty : Poems from the Plague Years, 1st ed., Aug. 2026.

1st web edition posted 8/29/2026.