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    Covid Fly-Away Blues

    Covid Fly-Away Blues



    All around the world, people say, the animals are coming back, back into parks and open spaces once polluted with too many humans. As a boy and a man I've taken out the trash more times than I can remember, and it seems to me we make more now than ever. Adding to that are Emense River Companies that over-pack. You discover packages sitting on your front porch the size of Manhattan with a toothbrush inside. I thought when I left Sears I jetisoned my Stanley box-knife for good. Now I'm trying to find it.

    Makes me want to fly away...but I can't.

    No one in their right mind wants to get in an enclosed space with a bunch of strangers, you don't know who they've seen, or where they've been, and every cough sends a chill down your spine. Every time you pass someone within the dreaded 6 feet you hold your breath. They can't see under your mask, and your eyes look like you're smiling, but your smile is really a grimmace because you're holding your breath and wondering just how long you can last, the overriding existential question of life itself.

    How much risk is too much?

    Going to the store, or any public place where it's busy, turns into a calculations games vaguely similar to Russian Roulette. You're always wondering what the odds are in any unknown situation.

    Is it safe? Because if it isn't, the gamble isn't worth it.

    ©Steven Hunley 2020

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    On the road, but not! Danik 2016's Avatar
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    That´s exactly how it is, Steve, thanks for stating it in so many words. And I am so happy that digital contacts are still safe!
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
    Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row

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    These are difficult times and we need competent leaders more than ever before. The numbers are decidedly against us, and the 'second wave' has yet to hit. Take a look at Hiroshige's Great Wave. It dwarfs the men, their boat, and even Mount Fuji. Take care, my friends and readers, listen to science, beware the darkness.

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