Have You Heard?

Have you heard about the massive hoax

that's been perpetrated against the global

community, by any chance? Aha! I can see

the incredulity in your eyes though your

facial expressed is masked, that there is a 

certain disbelief hobbling your mind

closed to the possibility that you have been

complicit in turning the world's social order

and economy inside out, twisting the present

and fogging the future. In one improbably

fell swoop all that is familiar to advanced

humanity has receded, closing borders

inhibiting trade, leaving people unemployed

and in dire straits, hospitals convinced they

must focus only on the supposition the public

will suddenly collapse in a mass paroxysm

of apprehended respiration. Strange symptoms

and stranger outcomes puzzle the medical

community struggling to cope with this

mysterious illness. The globe pulsates with

panicked trepidation as people pray to be

spared in a mass psychosis of surrender to

this message of a deadly zoonotic laying whole

societies low. A risible hoax, my friend, you

who maintain such a careful distance from me

unwilling to believe the simple truth that an

unnamed malignant force has mesmerized you

and the world into believing that benevolent

nature has turned her back on her creatures.

Mass hypnosis, my friend, hyper-hypnosis! 

The sick, the dying, the deaths? Mere illusions.

This, on the world's most powerful authority.