Mail News Service
Jamshedpur, May 9: Of not so late, perhaps ten million years or so since, certain breeds of dogs have practiced and perfected the art of straightening out their tails like the German Shepherd variety whereas some rare others who could not, did the next saner thing by having their masters or mistresses or both cut them into stubs so that they could have something to express their little joys from dining plate leftovers. Do not be mistaken. I am talking about the lot of Dobermans, Bull Dogs and chastised human counterparts that have learnt to abide by all norms including paying visits to prayer places during pre-lockdown times to ask for the latest TV models or girl or whatever baser needs in the strictest of legal sense.
But all these “Ughs!” and “Uffs!” and “To hell with lockdown!” curses are groans and grunts of the tailless life forms with two hind legs that are difficult to digest as they are the very ones who are stalking the streets without masks, without concern for social distancing, crowding places just for the heck of it and going to the markets to stick out their hands and fisfull of viruses for 50 grams of green chilly to cool the mental temperature of the spouse at home. How is one to convince the human looking coronavirus that they are the ones who are responsible for lockdowns 1,2,3 and may be 4,5,6? Excuse me but I prefer to cool my breath for my that many extra cups of tea at home rather than wasting it on newts who will never learn to straighten out even their concealed tails (thank the Devil for that trait of minimal decency).
The other day, two gentlemen and one gentlewoman in khaki were raving and ranting at a luxury SUV owner with three passengers in the rear seat and one next to him. They had clearly breached the law and had opened the gates for legal action including turning perfect bunnies for quarantine at some centre for deliberate law crushers. What ultimately happened to these high-profile hoodlums is an unknown quantity. But there are overloaded baskets of these quantities inviting administrative whips and stagnating police baton flourishes. These human tails can never be straightened out because these tails are camaflouged and speak different tales unfit for general readership.
Pundits continue to say that life after lockdown would persist with face masks as coronavirus will remain omnipresent as long as there is the vile human form of life on earth. May be, all that pessimism may not be true. But one premonition cannot be ruled out completely and that is, the next gen human embryo will be seen with a mask and a tail.
