You can always wear socks so 
the virus does not penetrate 
deep inside your skin.
 
I am not sure why we sleep.
 
It was as if daylight had changed 
with unnatural suddenness, as if 
the temperature of evening had altered greatly 
in an instant or as if the air 
had become twice as rare or 
twice as dense as it had been 

in the winking of an eye.