Without Swimming

Without Swimming A COVID19 lament by Sara L. Russell 25/9/20 at 14:01 Half a summer gone by; seamless tropical heat, birds singing, bees pollinating, flowers blooming and no swimming. All of the pools closed for almost four months. What is a summer without swimming? "A summer without swimming," she said, is like a wedding banquet without wine a main course with no dessert an empty treasure chest a lamentable waste of half a year." In fact, the summer without swimming was like a grandma never visited by grandchildren a wedding with no guests a funeral with no mourners a church with no congregation a sick patient dying alone a nurse dying for her professional calling a person with S.A.D. depression self-destructing for lack of swimming with red eyes brimming for closure of pools for closure of beaches for closure of everything. Life’s a beach and then you die.