The Decarone: Ten Activities & Thought Experiments to Occupy Our Minds as We Sit Self-quarantined Trying NOT to Think of the Coronavirus

Fund new research on Epirus --
though pluPyrrhic vict'ries tire us. 
     Muse upon the child of Jairus...?
Nope! Faith-healing shan't inspire us.
     Are these shards, in fact, Palmyra's...?
They're from Crete...? Our prof will fire us.
     Limn an image of Osiris

using red ink on papyrus.

     Tweet a tweet to Miley Cyrus

begging her some cash to wire us.

     Phone the mayor of Bucyrus.

Quiz him, “Can't Ohio hire us…?”

     Should Auntie Mame as Lady Iris

to an afterparty squire us…?

     Stephen King’s Dreamcatcher’s byrus:

what to think does such require us…?

     Brains – most brains --- display the gyrus.

No...? So: who're you callin' liar...? Us...?

     Putin -- or some other sly Rus --

shall with fake news soon enmire us.