I have been adhering to all the Covid 19 instructions and doing the best I can
Obeying all the protocols and sticking to their plan
I understand we should do our best to enforce the rules today
Listen to what the experts preach and try to do as they say
Now myself, I live in the Nipissing District and our cases now total one
Mayor Al of North Bay has decided to cancel all the fun
He’s closed all the skidooing, skiing, sledding and the skating too
So if the kids want to venture out, there is nothing for them to do
I think he may be a little overreacting by putting everything on hold
What the hell are kids to do when they are outside in the cold?
I mean there isn’t an overabundance of places where they can go
Give the kids a break Al, and let them play out in the snow
So the only activity to do is walking on the side street
Seeing you can’t stop to chat, you shouldn’t freeze your feet
The Covid 19 restrictions vary week to week, so try to stay on top
Because if you should break a rule, you could be fined by a local cop
So now they are saying that you should wear a double mask
So I hooked up my dog to his leash and went on our daily task
Now here I am on the sidewalk on this particular day
Heading down on the overpass while a bicycle is coming my way
The area is so narrow, there is no room for two
The pup and I hopped on the snow bank, it’s all that we could do
We definitely weren’t six feet apart when he finally squeezed by
As he peddled past us, I got a thank you from the guy
We continued down the hill and at the bottom we had to make a right
We proceeded to Memorial Drive once we crossed Judge at the light
The sidewalks there are scary and not level at all
If you aren’t careful you could slip and fall
This is the most popular site for walkers in our town
It would be much appreciated if they could somehow plane it down
There are so many people walking their dogs on this way
I run into so many others each and every day
We have people strolling there morning, noon and night
It would be nice to see some effort in getting this job right
There is over two kilometers to walk from Judge to Main
There is another feature of this route that I have to complain
The people who walk their dogs are required to clean their mess
This is another issue that all us dog walkers wish to address
Seeing that exercising out pets is the only activity we able to accomplish in this ban
It would be much appreciated if the city could supply us with more than one garbage can
I don’t know if you have had to handle a bag of crap in the freezing cold
Sometimes it can get very slippery and very hard to hold
The plastic also can get brittle and chances are it will break
Putting it in our pockets is an option one does not take
So naturally accidents are going to happen and some contents will fall to the ground
Who knows where they will end up and where they will be found?
If this continues, things could pile up for a while
Come spring, they may have another nickname for “The Golden Mile”
As far as garbage cans go, we need a couple more
We could use them in so many other areas, is it really that big a chore?
If walking is our only sanctioned event that this City will allow
Maybe we have to make more use of the sidewalk plough
I’m watching the news from the big infected cities every single night
They show the kids outside playing while we are locked down tight
Maybe Mayor Al it’s time to take a second look and show a little pity
Of course it may not affect you at all since you don’t reside in our City
The Black Sheep Poet 