Monday, February 17, 2020

LOVE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19

"Rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock", a minute universe frolicking in bat soup, Zashi Dongwu in Wuhan for the Spring Festival, COVID-19 uncooked and clinging to an alveoli, Dongwu sneezing while handing gifts to an aunt from Macau and a cousin from Hongkong, the cousin calling his sister who was vacationing in Bangkok, the sister asking her son in Singapore to bring home crispy fish skin, the son telling his uncle in Tokyo to buy a bag of Otoko Ume candy, the uncle checking on his streetfood hunting niece in Kuala Lumpur, the niece skyping with her friends in Taipei.

That was how the pandemic broke which locked down the itinerant Sir Knight on St. Valentine's Day, and the story of how a bouquet of roses found its way into the porcelain hands of an Honored Lady.          


Patient 1 from Ground 0 bruised the Diamond Princess in Yokohama and the Westerdam in Sihanoukville, love lost in the high seas and in the air but blooming in the bike trails where the Commandant outdueled both Black Kaiser and The Angel in a Netflix marathon where David Chang was spooked by Anthony Bourdain's ghost while in Sao Paolo, Bruna Surfistinha string cocks like fish drying in the sun.    


Believers inoculate themselves with cheap whiskey during the Festival of Lupercalia, and they who celebrated late were fumigated with an amber brew on Saints Jovita and Faustinus' martyrdom while those plagued pleaded with toasted whiskey for St. Juliana of Nicomedia to intervene and immunize love in this viral times.  


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