Damp and musty the dirty metro station feels older then its forty years or so. The benches where the bums were always drinking last fall are empty this morning. Either too early to imbibe or they’ve all been warned too many times now. The rules have all changed. Public gatherings banned on every level of society. But it makes me wonder. Without one another how are we supposed to live.

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