The Shopping Carts Were Full
The shopping carts were full,
some with three
and four packages of toilet tissue,
and when I went
to purchase one package, the
shelves were empty;
but why toilet tissue? What
has the global pandemic
to do with stocking up on
toilet tissue? Are we so
fearful of running out of
toilet tissue that we cannot
manage to do without? Cannot
we improvise? Have
we become so pampered by personal
comforts that
we cannot make do? We know why
the contagion
is jumping from person to nation,
and we don’t
know how to stop it, yet; but
it, too, shall pass like
the Spanish flu, and when the global
pandemic
has opened the world’s heart
center, there will be
no more need to hoard toilet paper.
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