The Original Corona Virus ... Jackson Heights, NY, June 29, 1958

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At O'Grady's Erie Bar

in Jackson Heights

Barry, Harry, Larry, and Gary

were known as

The Inebriatos

The bar was

under an elevated subway

and the neighborhood
was partly under
the poverty level

Pops O'Grady

set aside a corner table

for the Inebriatos

Barry, Harry, Larry, and Gary

had the blues

and their table

was painted blue

Their table also contained

forty empty bottles

of Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer

After deciding not to smash

the juke box because someone

had just played

The Great Mandala

twelve times in a row,

the Inebriatos

started talking about
HER

😢 😢😢😢
Barry, Harry, Larry and Gary

all loved the same girl

The girl

lived in a castle

and regarded the four 
nineteen-year-old boys

as lower than the dust

beneath her chariot wheels

The castle was in a neighboring town

and the girl's name was

IRIS

The neighboring town was

CORONA

 

Naturally,

rhyming came easy for

Barry, Harry, Larry, and Gary

and so they sang:

Her parent were doctors

from Arizona

who bought a castle

in Corona

The castle would never be

visited by us

but in it lived a girl

named Iris

Just her name:

it gives us shivers

just to touch her,

we'd donate our livers

Our hearts are broken,

our mouths always cussing

despite always having

Flora from Flushing

What will become

of us

stricken by

the Corona Iris

She don't know
how it feels
to be crushed by
her chariot wheels

 What will become
of us
stricken by
the Corona Virus 

...

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Footnotes

THE ORIGINAL CORONA VIRUS

JACKSON HEIGHTS, NY, 1958

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

Especially the lyrics

to the song 

I apologize to anyone

offended by geographical liberties

regarding the Borough of Queens

The Institute of Inane Research

has determined that the castle owned

by the family of Iris Wantagh

morphed into a parking lot

for Shea Stadium

They also determined
Flora from Flushing
became a distinguished
high school principal
in Los Angeles
  

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