SO THIS IS HOW THE WORLD WILL END: 3/20/2020

So This is How The World Will End: by Rick Castro 3/20/2020

So this is how the world ends?……… I think not.

As I flee Los Angeles in my dad’s hand-me-down 1990 Ford Explorer, (a soccer mom car if there ever was one) 

I’m in the slow lane of the 5 FWY headed northeast. Surprisingly busy on the morning of quarantine at 5am?!

Single passenger cars and Prius’s are whizzing by.. They seam to be going 90 MPH.

I don’t blame them. They are over it…. They can’t wait to flee LA as I do… 

They are booking.. I’m the slowpoke driving granny-ish behind all the mack semi trucks in the far right slow lane. 

Cars weaving in and out of lanes would usually piss me off.. but not today.. not this morning.

They are over it… THEY ARE OVER IT! THEY ARE OVER IT MUTHA FUCKAS!!  

THEY…… ARE……. OVER……. IT!!!!

They wanna get outta dodge.. They wanna escape somewhere… but where? 

As I turn onto the 14 FWY , a sense of calm comes over me… I think it comes over my fellow freeway drivers as well.. 

Much less people.. The morning scenery is beautiful… Low clouds blanket the valley. Its spectacular… Who knew the end of the world would be sooo…. pretty. 

I guess when I saw Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia it was depicted as this pretty…. but he’s an avant guard Danish filmmaker.
 He makes everything pretty. He directed a TV series  called The Kingdom where all the nurses watch splatter porn, and the ambulance drivers play chicken. 

The receptionists take bets as to who will punk out first as two ambulances drive head on in the staff parking lot.  The entire hospital staff watches on security cams…and he made that pretty.

This scenery is definitely pretty. Now hitting Pearblossom Highway it is serenity. 
Like nature is expecting me and made the landscape and sky as inviting as possible. 

To help calm my every last frayed nerve.

So this is how the world will end.

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