Unfortunately, I became a sad statistic last Friday, April 2nd. I found myself at a Covid-19 testing site. It wasn’t that long ago that I would drive by such a site, and see the cars lined up and wonder just how sick were those people to wait in line for an awful test? Now I was one of those people and I knew just how sick I was to get in my car and drive there.

I was out for a walk on Sunday, minding my social distance. I walked through a schoolyard which was completely empty. There were tennis courts and baseball fields at the other end. The tennis courts, I’d noticed have been kind of busy lately.

This makes sense since you can play and maintain social distance from each other.

But I noticed there were four men on one court playing ‘doubles’. I also noticed all of their sport bags, coats and water bottles in one big pile by the court. I was amazed. There didn’t seem to be a single care about spreading the virus. So much for self quarantine.

What a silly decision.

Naturally, I wrote a poem about it.

 
 Tennis In the Time of Corona Virus

 Never before has
 Doubles tennis looked so sinister
 The men leapt, reached and ducked
 On the court
  
 I imagine sweat and saliva
 Dripping from one to the other
 The handsome young men
 Not a care in the world
  
 For the spread of a virus
 With no cure
 Caution to the wind
 As their rackets swung
  
 Next week one of them 
 Will lose their sense of taste
 Break a fever and reminisce
 In isolation, of his victory
  
 On the court of death
 His friends will follow suit
 Strong, athletic men
 If only they had played 
 Singles tennis
  
 They may have lived another day
 But they jeered a virus 
 That cannot be contained
 All for a game
  and shameless exhibition
 of who is the best
  
 But mother nature
 She doesn’t play around
 Nor should we
 In the time of Corona Virus 

Stay healthy everyone and if you play tennis, make sure you stick to singles game.

How are you getting your exercise during self quarantine?