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                                                                27032020

                                   It was nine o’clock post meridian and the apartment

                                   Smelt of homemade pizza and wine. A typical

                                   Friday night, pizza and wine followed by some

                                   Dystopian movie to while away the night. Only,

                                   This time the voice of the Taoiseach came over

                                   The airways to announce the curfew that would

                                   Be enforced, due to the corona virus pandemic.

                                   Deaths, as had been forecast, were multiplying

                                   And we had to act fast if we were going to stop

                                  The spread of the contagion. As he spoke, we all

                                   Looked at one another. The mood in the home

                                  Changed. History was in the making, and we were

                                  All now caught up in the same movie, actors in some

                                  New human drama, our lives were in our own hands.