When the Tv Conjectured Covid

We watched the television fall asleep through window eyes. It was only 1999 but even that early 2020 began to unwind its springs one Spring at a time. April was the koolest month we loved to walk in the uprising, to gather berries eat them as our hips jig jagged together through the crunching woods. You swallowed the foundling fruit one at a time while I filled my mouth like a chipmunk. It was in these early days that we bought the used TV set. A gypsy fortune-teller had predicted many televisions in our life together. Thus when the TV conjectured the possibility of a global plague it commenced to reprogram itself; to electronically dream-up the year 2020 into our reality. We had to look away from the screen, we had to put down the blackberries we had been eating, and now had to ponder our relationship - if one day it ever went missing. Then in slow-eyed motion, we watched tomorrow somnambulate its way out onto the deserted streets.