Cristal Brawley
Response
No One Said a Pandemic Would Feel This Lonely
By Amy Souza
Inspiration piece
TV people on a TV blanket watch TV stars then break into song
Absence feels like weight
An email asks if you know the key to happiness
Shows two friends laughing
The internet says to make your own fun
“If you can’t be alone, you can’t be with others”
You tell the internet to fuck off
But then you’re bitter and dig aloneness a deeper trench
Next you step outside to sense the air
The sky feels real
But the rest, who knows?
Like a tree that falls when no one’s around, all’s a mystery
Maybe silent, maybe on fire
You wash your face before bed, that’s real
Feed and exercise the body
But you can’t crack the most important code
That should be part of you like stardust instructions
Days of isolation compress your chest like
An elephant or a thousand sandbags
Someone said most humans live shallow
What you think you see belies reality
Everyone feels starved
The thing is this poem might never end
Because the sun will rise and hide the night sky
But it’s still there and we all know it
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