Here’s
the conundrum—my small dog,
she
barks at everything, a noise from the
tenant
upstairs, other dogs on TV,
even
the cutest puppies. She barks at
elephants
and walruses too. And she’s
a
TV junkie, so I can’t watch the Animal
Planet.
And the goddamned other channels
air
too many commercials featuring cats
and
horses and pigs. I have to be quick on
the
remote to avoid an uncontrollable barking
frenzy.
My pup barks at the lawn service
doing
their job, a casual neighbor walking
by.
She is a serial barker, and there is little
or
nothing I can do. Is she fearless or fearful?
How
can one tell? Fearful perhaps at what
she
can hear and see, and unlike me, fearless
when
it comes to COVID-19, the unseen viral
enemy.
I’d have to deal with non-stop incessant
barking
if she could see at all the casualties. I
get
pissed watching Trump proclaim victory
over
the pandemic on TV. Even when I don’t
see
him, the mere thought him repulses me.
Due
to more than a two month delayed
acknowledgment
and response to the Corona-
virus,
Trump is responsible for thousands of
lives
lost. And that is some shameful and scary
shit
indeed. Be afraid, Mankind, be very afraid!
Thank
God my dog doesn’t see.
-30-
Chris
Hanch 4-30-2020
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