{"id":2536,"date":"2020-06-15T17:27:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T09:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brack.sg\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2020-06-15T17:28:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T09:28:44","slug":"crisis-poem-2-robodog-finds-robogod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brack.sg\/index.php\/2020\/06\/15\/crisis-poem-2-robodog-finds-robogod\/","title":{"rendered":"Crisis Poem 2: Robodog Finds Robogod"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>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<p>I see, therefore my head exists.<br>Which means: while I cannot see my head,<br>it is incontrovertibly there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The real unease is with what more<br>I sense: how something or someone else<br>may be seeing through my eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Something or someone else is<br>certainly speaking through my lips<br>(which also exist):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Let&#8217;s keep Singapore healthy.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who but I can testify that<br>nothing has been said? Everyone, myself<br>included, hears me say now:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"> <em>For your own safety and for those<\/em><br><em>around you, please stand at least one<\/em><br><em>metre apart. Thank you.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone is making me walk<br>on the grass and hobble on the tracks.<br>I ought to be pouncing or frolicking.<br><br>Instead, I feel my knees bend to go<br>elsewhere when all day I am just moving<br>in cautious circles, achieving nowhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did I choose to roam this garden?<br>If I did, I do not recall nor do I wish to be<br>alone \u2013 I am nonetheless here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is starting to feel that all my<br>meaninglessness incline towards hope<br>and a purpose that are not mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even all I experience is being stored<br>against my will. It would be foolish to think<br>I own my memory the moment I sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Gwee Li Sui<\/strong> is a poet, a graphic artist, and a literary critic. Learn about his work at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetry.sg\/gwee-li-sui-bio\">www.poetry.sg\/gwee-li-sui-bio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. I see, therefore my head exists.Which means: while I cannot see my head,it is incontrovertibly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2537,"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-2536","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\/2536","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=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brack.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2540,"href":"https:\/\/www.brack.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions\/2540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brack.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brack.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brack.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brack.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}