Lockdown Town

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. - Thoreau

People are dying.

No one is flying.

"Closed" signs in doors.

Media keeping scores.

Sarcastic streets are empty.

Day has become night.

Fear embracing plight.

A pathogenic, masked bandit has held up life.

Armed with social strife.

Stores pickpocketed and rude.

"Keep well" has become a sick platitude.

Breathing contagious and the living crude.

Suspicious eyes search for the sun's infected corona.

"Positive" prayers gut fish in search of Jonah.

Feeling blessesd.

"Negative" reads the test.

Nothing to do but clean.

Damn this quarantine ...

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Author's Note

"If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment." - Thoreau

Reviews

[Dave Brown]

very nicely done
In B.C. in general, on Van Isl. in particular, the situation appears reasonably under control
Of course everything is shut down but things could be much worse

[Pete]

perhaps there is the glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. thanks dave ... :)