Grab these items.
Let’s all stockpile like crazy.
Claw your way up the aisles folks.
You need tissues, paper towel,
cereals, grains, beans, lentils, pasta,
tinned food, fish, vegetables, fruit,
oil, spices and flavours,
dried fruit and nuts, sugar,
plenty of sugar,
life isn’t going to be sweet
after you strip the shelves bare.
Ohhh yes and
ultra-heat treated or powdered milk,
soft drink and candy,
chocolate for treats,
wine, beer, tobacco and gin!
Vitamins.
Feminine hygiene products,
family packs of toilet paper,
cleaning products.
Baby foods, nappies.
Medications!

Begin!
Get there first.
Hurry hurry
while stocks last,
which won’t be for long
now the locusts have come.
Stuff yourself sick.
Put your shoulder into it mate.
Shove that nurse out of the way.
Don’t worry yourself about her.

My grandmother kept a supply
of sugar, tinned fruit,
carnation milk, rice and porridge.
Her sideboard heaved with these contents.
They were not allowed to reduce.
A practice she learned from poverty.
You never know when a mine may collapse
Never know when your man may be crushed.
Never know when there might be a lock out.
She was being a good wife and mother.
She could never relax all her life.
She never trusted the good times to remain.
It annoyed my father.
This isn’t the same.
And this is a rant not a poem.

(The list of food and other items to grab was listed as advice in the Daily Mail on February 25th and updated on 3rd March – people were following instructions. And on April 8th this from the Daily Mail –
Don’t panic, just shop! MailOnline readers share the coronavirus ‘essentials’ they’re stockpiling from Pot Noodles and Calpol to water and beauty cream – as shops RATION hand sanitisers and prices skyrocket on eBay
Are you stockpiling coronavirus essentials? Send your pictures to stephen.matthews@mailonline.co.uk)

I smell their stink from here.