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Mar 2020
Just imagine what the
Genus Corvus thinks
of all this quarantine
business right now.

En Francais Le Corbeau
The Crow, a film about
someone in the village
who knows secrets of all.

Nature is aware that
something is amiss, I
can feel it, from watching
while walking the roads.

But it is Spring, their busy
time, nesting, not easy for
Family Corvidae with this
continuous easterly wind.

Not only that, the litter
louts are not about, so
less available food on the
kerbsides around town.

So, let's not become too
obsessed about ourselves
and think about the urban
wildlife, now our adoptees.

They have been abandoned,
no children going to school,
no gossiping at the gates, no
noise, cars, double glazed out.

There is more to life than just
ourselves or has television
made us hostages of voluntary
isolation even before this epidemic.

A virus has been infecting us
far many years now, just take
a look at peoples back gardens,
or into their shopping baskets.

Useless eaters indeed, if the
planet was a farm and some
of us the animals, I doubt very
much we'ed be kept as pets.

Old McDonald is not senile
but he is a capitalist, with an
empire to run, so his ranch
needs to be super productive.

When Enrico's old horse was
too old to work, he was turned
out by his master, this is what
Covid - 19 is really really about.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJFNPRr7-HQ
Ryan O'Leary
Written by
Ryan O'Leary  Mallow.
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