Talk about the end of time

TODAY CANADA SHUT DOWN
alan skeoch Friday March 13, 2020
Today the city shut down
Today social events shut down
Today sporting events including curling shut down
Today schools shut down
Today air travel shut down
Today Marjorie’s bridge clubs shut down
Today Loblaws was ringed with shopping carts…not quite shut down but close
Today the loaded shelves in normal times were empty…shut down
Today the medical centres were mobbed…slowed down
Today dentists began to reconsider their profession…would that viral containing mouths were shut down
Today parliament shut down
Today Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was virtually shut down
Today the zoo shut down
Today the library shut down
Today the museum shut down
Today the art centre shut down
Today the white collar crowd were sent home…shut down
Today the blue collar crowd were NOT shut down
Today the garbage was collected
Today the buses were running
TODAY A LITTLE THING SO SMALL AS TO BE INVISIBLE MANAGED TO SHUT DOWN CIVILIZED LIFE ACROSS THE PLANET.
Today the pharmacies were packing pills…some lives were shutting down
Today the paper was delivered
Today a coyote slipped into our back yard….and sat down
Today the clouds were black, the trees were bare, the ground was gray…Today the planet shut down.
Today I had a cough…but no temperature, no weakness…no Covid-19 to shut me down …yet
“Shut up, Alan, …pipe down.”

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