Stay indoors.
Shelter-in-place.
No one to enter this facility
without photo ID.
Emails
from Integrated Services;
Government Operations Centre;
the Program Manager.
Spokesperson says
the Prime Minister is safe.
Outside,
contract painters finish lunch,
apply a second coat
to the building’s exterior.
(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday)
