It’s getting serious We’re all ordered to stay in place Not to go out Over half the population of California could be infected in 8 weeks I hope none of us in this house gets it I want us to see this thing from a distant As a spectator a sport Watching this horrific moment in time pass us Unscathed
I want that for my family But you never know what the future will hold The most minute detail can change the course of an entire life
I don’t want to go outside I’m scared to What if I get it I’m not like these youngsters that go about like everythings fine Seems like that there’s just a disconnect of some kind
My daughter My daughter fly’s to Washington D.C. to visit her boyfriend In the midst of a pandemic She takes a flight A flight where there are other people A whole airport with all these people What the hell was she thinking She wasn’t She’s not supposed to She’s twenty years old
Hunker in place That’s what I’m going to do As supplies last We have enough food for about a month Got five pounds of flour today Another ten pounds coming tomorrow Dropped off by friends brave enough to venture out Risk themselves for the rest As soon as I received the groceries I walked straight to the bathroom and washed my hands
The worst is yet to come I’m hoping it doesn’t hit Bakersfield too hard I don’t think it will We don’t have a major airport No major port from sea Our city is kind of isolated from the rest of California Conserative Republican leaning The tail end of the Bible Belt
What I saw once as a vice I now see as a benefit Out here in the San Joaquin Valley Our rural and isolated ways Ways which we were criticized by real city folk Los Angeles San Diego San Francisco These ways could help keep us alive