{"id":2467,"date":"2020-05-31T22:04:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T14:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brack.sg\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2020-06-10T15:19:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T07:19:26","slug":"crisis-poem-1-clusterfk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brack.sg\/index.php\/2020\/05\/31\/crisis-poem-1-clusterfk\/","title":{"rendered":"Crisis Poem 1: Clusterf**k"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

COVID Companions is a series of creative pieces featuring snippets of life during COVID-19, with a special focus on the other individuals or creatures who are keeping us company during quarantine, lockdown, \u2018circuit breaker\u2019, or whatever your equivalent might be.<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Clusterf**k<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

you moan, you cannot take it any longer:
my nights are long and they just got longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

of the times i lost count counting, i lose count:
my nights that are long are getting longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

what world beyond us rains down in numbers!
while our nights are long, they will get longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

so much of nothing for all that is brewing
for the long nights that are growing longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

now i know why the caged hamster works out
for the days are long and getting longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

on the streets and in the parks \u2013 runaways!
how these days, though long, can still get longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

someone freed a bench from unemployment:
my days may be long, they are now longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

in the land of the masked, the full face is queen:
my days, long as they are, got yet longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

nothing is secret that shan\u2019t be revealed:
the long days dare not but still got longer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

some kind of trouble \u2013 i hear the walls wail
in these long nights that are wailing longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

who is clapping in the dead of darkness?
my nights are long and you make them longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

zombies in aimless cars: the witching hour
between the long half and the half longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

will you and i remember how we loved once?
those nights we knew are no longer longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

smiles forgotten, the eyes\u2019 sudden brightness
and longing in the night waxing longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

all hours the tv howls in my face
since my nights are long, reliving longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

when will the end come? how will it be like?
life is short \u2013 yet its nights so much longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gwee Li Sui<\/strong> is a poet, a graphic artist, and a literary critic. Learn about his work at www.poetry.sg\/gwee-li-sui-bio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

COVID Companions is a series of creative pieces featuring snippets of life during COVID-19, with a special focus on the other individuals or creatures who are keeping us company during quarantine, lockdown, \u2018circuit breaker\u2019, or whatever your equivalent might be. Clusterf**k you moan, you cannot take it any longer:my nights are long and they just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[531],"tags":[527,526,525,543,546,528,529],"class_list":["post-2467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-companions","tag-circuitbreaker","tag-covid19","tag-covidcompanions","tag-crisispoems","tag-gweelisui","tag-lockdown","tag-quarantine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brack.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brack.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brack.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brack.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brack.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.brack.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2539,"href":"https:\/\/www.brack.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions\/2539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brack.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brack.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brack.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brack.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}