THE VIRAL LIBRARY DEPT.
I’m ducking Covid
By reading Ovid
That guy wrote a book, or four!
Echo, Narcissus, King Midas’s gold…
With eye-bait like this is,
I won’t catch that Cold!

Diodorus Sic’lus
Staves off “the Sickness”
Catullus, Pindar and more…
No time, fucking Covid,
I’m reading Ovid,
That I overlooked before!
— Old Roman charm for warding off plague















