CHICKEN LITTLE or THE SKY IS FINALLY FALLING
It’s finally
happened in my lifetime – the sky is falling.
And I am doing my best impersonation of Chicken Little running around
holding my head in my hands, screaming “the sky is falling ,the sky is falling!”! My brain is spinning into butter from fear of
everything: kitchen counters, silverware,
the refrigerator, gas pumps, other humans, all door handles/knobs in a 1,000
mile radius and my own hands! Oh no, did
I just touch my face and forget to wash my hands? I might have, I did, I didn’t, I can’t
remember. I’m dazed, confused and only
have 6 rolls of toilet paper in the cabinet beneath the sink. Will that last, will I? My hand has become one with the remote as I channel
surf from one news outlet to the next, and OMG did I sanitize it before I
surfed? I almost washed my hair with
sanitizer before I snapped back into consciousness. No one has mentioned that yet have they? My eyes are blood red as I have been staring
at the TV for so long that I think I forgot how to blink. What I really need is sleep, calm, and a Xanax
drip.
Dr. Fauci I
have checked my temperature at least 45 times in the last hour. Do I really think I can develop a fever that
fast – yes! My hand/arm is suddenly on
auto response to check my cheeks to see if they’re extremely hot or medium hot,
or mildly hot or not. I will get tennis
elbow if I can’t stop myself soon. I
haven’t coughed in weeks but am convinced I have one. Uh oh, have body aches
set in? Nope I just tripped and fell on
the rug running to clean my hands so I can use my iPhone. But hold on a sec,
don’t I have to wash my phone too? Ironically I have spent years desperately
trying to keep my phone safe from water. The phone, my hands, my face, my mind,
which will go first?
Meanwhile the stock market is falling faster than the sky. For one brief shining moment I am excited to be too poor to have bought any. Then I remember I am still poor.
I decide to take the dog for a walk and pick up pieces of the sky as I go.
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