So This Is How The World Will End: by Rick Castro 3/27/2020
I’m not used to the sounds of nature. There’s a dull thumping on the roof, like an animal or something moseying about. Besides that, everything seems to be falling into place here at my self-isolation resort. Yesterday while taking photos for the evite of my new virtual tea salon~ quarentea, I left a small navel orange from my father’s tree back in L.A on my father's, (see I do give him some credit) weathered, yet romantic picnic table.
This morning there were huge black crows flying pass my windows. I was relieved they were’t ravens We know what that means!
One crow very close to me flew pass the picnic table and snatched up that orange. Then numerous black crows hovered around wanting
a piece of the luscious fruit. Their blackness was so stark in contrast to the blue emerald skies, forest green juniper and crystalline white snow. I kept thinking of the Hitchcock classic, The Birds, in a good way… I love that film. To see so many so close, a mass all gathered together was spectacular. I believe it’s called a murder?
One crow very close to me flew pass the picnic table and snatched up that orange. Then numerous black crows hovered around wanting
a piece of the luscious fruit. Their blackness was so stark in contrast to the blue emerald skies, forest green juniper and crystalline white snow. I kept thinking of the Hitchcock classic, The Birds, in a good way… I love that film. To see so many so close, a mass all gathered together was spectacular. I believe it’s called a murder?
I’m gonna interrupt my serene thoughts for a moment to tell whoever is reading this diary- please STAY HOME! The plague mass,
(my term for COVID-19) is the real deal. We have never encountered something like this in our lifetime. At the moment the curve is full-on in NYC. My thoughts are with many dear friends and all my readers as well. Italy, Korea and China have already hit their respective curves. Seattle is in the midst and slowly coming out. The next two weeks will be San Francisco, my hometown of Los Angeles, and I assume San Diego, although I must admit, I haven’t done any research on SD. The states that are gonna get blind-sighted by the plague mass are Texas, Mississippi, Florida and Alabama. Louisiana is in full state of emergency after all those millions of Mardi Gras partiers each became their own version of Typhoid Mary and took it home to their unsuspecting hometowns……. Everywhere.
I implore you to think of your older relatives, people with cancer and HIV, people with weaker immune systems. For once think of your fellow human before yourself. I cannot make this any clearer….
(my term for COVID-19) is the real deal. We have never encountered something like this in our lifetime. At the moment the curve is full-on in NYC. My thoughts are with many dear friends and all my readers as well. Italy, Korea and China have already hit their respective curves. Seattle is in the midst and slowly coming out. The next two weeks will be San Francisco, my hometown of Los Angeles, and I assume San Diego, although I must admit, I haven’t done any research on SD. The states that are gonna get blind-sighted by the plague mass are Texas, Mississippi, Florida and Alabama. Louisiana is in full state of emergency after all those millions of Mardi Gras partiers each became their own version of Typhoid Mary and took it home to their unsuspecting hometowns……. Everywhere.
I implore you to think of your older relatives, people with cancer and HIV, people with weaker immune systems. For once think of your fellow human before yourself. I cannot make this any clearer….
STAY THE FUCK HOME
The same black crow sits on the Joshua Tree directly in front of my window. It likes me or taunts me.. Maybe both.. I like it. I like crows, they’re very smart, dangerously beautiful Corvus.
Did you ever see The Omen II with Lee Grant!? The scene where reporter Joan Hart, (Elizabeth Shepherd) wearing all red tries to warn Willam Holden, ( portraying the President of the United States) that his son is the Anitchrist. As you can imagine, Holden doesn’t take the information well and kicks her out of his limo. She then finds herself in a deserted country road, (how can it be so remote when she was just in DC?) where a black crow… no a raven,(!) stalks her. Her car mysteriously stalls and there is the raven sitting as a hood ornament, giving dyke eyes, ( slang term I use when someone is cruising someone, hard). Of course this freaks out Miss Hart who flees her Mercedes, only to have the raven immediately attack her with those talons! Satan’s familiar rips Miss Hart’s updo hairdo to shreds and tears at her red coat causing her to fall into an irrigation ditch. When she emerges tattered and torn, her eyes have been pecked out. Now blind, she feebly stumbles about. Only relying on sound, she hears a truck approaching and runs into the road begging for help. The semi mack truck driver never expected to encounter a shredded, bloody woman with eyes pecked out in the middle of nowhere and cannot stop his massive vehicle in time.. I’ll leave the rest for you to watch on your owns.
I wish Willam Holden was President and not Trumpworld.
So this is how the world will end.
copyright 3/2020
So this is how the world will end.
copyright 3/2020
The Longer I am alone, the better I like it...!
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