LOCKDOWN 0.6 COMMENCES: 6 Cases, August 6th, 6th Lockdown: 666
PANDEMIC WRITINGS, Melbourne, Australia (2020-2022): piece originally published August 6, 2021
6 cases on the first day of Victoria's 6th lockdown, on August the 6th: 666
The ever-gluttonous Beast is now gargantuan and ungainly; having nourished itself on an endless feast of compliance it now arrogantly salivates and looms large over its bewildered prey.
"Snap-lockdowns are our new normal."
What wishful-thinking hubris!
What it has just bitten off, it cannot possibly chew...
...may our tenacious defiance be the jaw-dislocating gristle that causes this abominable manifestation to finally choke.
It is up to us.
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me...
...Fool me SIX times, shamelessly do I shamble in this shaming sham of shamefulness.