{"id":841,"date":"2020-03-24T22:28:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T22:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/?p=841"},"modified":"2020-03-24T22:28:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T22:28:57","slug":"quarantine-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/?p=841","title":{"rendered":"Quarantine Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“Your meeting attendees are waiting!”<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Maybe, everyone has been waiting<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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for my time and toil to be delivered<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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on time and seamlessly through video chat.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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No need to heat the office or water the plants I brought back<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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stuffed into a bag on the side of my bicycle.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The letter from the school is printed in Comic Sans<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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which easier to read if you have a disability:<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cA large amount of the learning will need to be carried out online so will therefore obviously need to be supervised by an adult at all times.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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And then,\u201cYour meeting attendees are waiting!\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cCall for papers\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cCall for research grants on issues related to the current crisis\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cURGENT\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cJoin our live stream\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cRemote event!\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I am not a brain on a stick;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I am a body in a house.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The bodyhouse for a child who is here, hot in the sun<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Wanting something, wanting nothing<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Wanting to leave, wanting to be held tighter.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Tighter, against the fear, the knowledge<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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that a sunny day was never going to promise a day of adventure<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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that a trip outside the house was illicit<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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that your friends couldn\u2019t be trusted, only images on the screen.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Fall into my arms.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Hold me.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Will it ever end?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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