The initial idea proved unworkable, but now I have a different idea that I'm liking a lot.
Nice!
Re the likeness to Drumknott: what a neat archetype/dynamic to be able to see in the wild.
I have been writing poems that obliquely or directly touch on COVID since the summer of 2020. At this point it feels disingenuous to me to pretend that it isn't part of the backdrop of the world, as much of a pernicious lie as all of the people pretending we've rolled back to normality and/or there isn't still a pandemic on. I have no idea if I will ever eat in a restaurant or spend an afternoon in a museum or see a movie in theaters again. My personal health interacts with the total abandonment of public health in such a way that I do not see how I am ever to participate casually in public life unless we have some real scientific breakthroughs which I no longer believe anyone cares about; I am a disposable casualty of a pandemic world. If you want to write about how the show changed with COVID, it doesn't strike me as tasteless or appropriative or what have you. It's part of what's real.
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Date: 2023-09-21 01:11 am (UTC)Nice!
Re the likeness to Drumknott: what a neat archetype/dynamic to be able to see in the wild.
I have been writing poems that obliquely or directly touch on COVID since the summer of 2020. At this point it feels disingenuous to me to pretend that it isn't part of the backdrop of the world, as much of a pernicious lie as all of the people pretending we've rolled back to normality and/or there isn't still a pandemic on. I have no idea if I will ever eat in a restaurant or spend an afternoon in a museum or see a movie in theaters again. My personal health interacts with the total abandonment of public health in such a way that I do not see how I am ever to participate casually in public life unless we have some real scientific breakthroughs which I no longer believe anyone cares about; I am a disposable casualty of a pandemic world. If you want to write about how the show changed with COVID, it doesn't strike me as tasteless or appropriative or what have you. It's part of what's real.