Summer comes and joy begins for the students are free at last. Children in the park laughing like hyenas. Birds chirping overhead as the basketball meets the ground with a loud thud. But wait. Wait! Be careful outside, disease is spreading. Where is your mask? Can’t go outside without your mask! Toilet paper? No more!? Sanitizer? No more? Wipes? No more. Is this where we have gotten? Where the bliss of summer disintegrates and becomes like nothing. Joy forsaken as time passes. Joy forsaken as ennui settles in. For when will it end? This hopeless summer. For when will it end? For when will the silence end? The endless tick tick ticking of the clock as minutes goes by. The strange and alien like silence that settles upon the streets. For when will this waiting end?