Mid-April 2020

It was sunny but cool this mid-April morning. It's hard to believe there are people in all of those apartments and houses, they're so quiet, everything is quiet, the streets, the closed stores, the empty city buses. And then the police drive by in one of their huge new navy blue Ford SUVs, they look old fashioned, from a previous era, almost militaristic. Someone from the City is putting posters at the entrances of apartment buildings, Covid-19 information. Someone is approaching and we avoid each other, I look away and hold my breath until they've passed, you can't be too safe.