COVID-19 Volunteer

I don’t want to be remembered as nothing but a jerk

so I’m going to take one for the team
by going back to work

even though I’ll be pushing my mortal luck—
I’ll likely catch COVID-19 and die of lung
congestion. Even less of a jerk:

I won’t waste a ventilator
on myself—who needs me anymore
anyway? I’ll go back to work,

but I'll just fuck off
same as I did when the company paid my lunch
ticket. An easy-money jerk,

I quit my front-office job to drive a truck.
But I’ve got a sneaky hunch
we’ll all be returning to work

in the fields of Glory pretty soon now—what the fuck?
OK, if I can help avert the crunch,
I’ll take one for the team by going back to work,
just so’s not to be remembered as a jerk.