Grim and Bare It
Coming. To a neighbourhood near you. It
may even be your own, and likely will be.
Like all matters relating to nature
events can occur with lightning-speed
astonishing us even as they threaten
us by irrevocably altering all that we know
converting the ordinary to dangerous
dimensions, dizzying our awareness
with unknown caution in the approach
to all that has been so familiar and
is now fraught with potential to harm.
Ready, now? After all, the advance
warning has given us all a good two
months' notice that what has been
routine for a lifetime has been turned
inside out and upside down. But we're
resourceful and we're capable of
absorbing the shock, able to adapt
and we'll survive. At least that's what
we are assured. You must now curb those
natural instincts as a social creature
for in those habits lie challenges to
survival. Practise distance, view one
another as potential vectors of a dreadful
disease, be suspicious, isolate yourself
and set away on a high unreachable
shelf the very notion of sociability
for this is the new price of survival. You
have but to unburden yourself from the
quaint notion that a social platform of
spontaneous gregariousness is human.
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