{"id":4097,"date":"2020-05-11T15:29:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T22:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/?p=4097"},"modified":"2020-05-11T23:04:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T06:04:10","slug":"4097-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/4097-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Anosmia"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m usually not down for topical or occasional poetry, with a few exceptions. \u00a0Follows one of them, practically a found poem which began as a tweet.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

True, one feature which attracts me to Twitter is its haiku-like constraint of 280 characters. I rarely compose a tweet spontaneously without care for economy of means. Brevity is also the soul of poetry.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Anosmia<\/a> or smell-blindness was a hashtag ad-on in the original tweet. \u00a0Here it’s become the title. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Loss of smell and taste are in fact early symptoms of covid<\/a>, which, as envisioned in the poem, are part of a larger loss imposed by social distancing on society as a whole, since we can no longer taste or smell others without frightening proximity.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

Bingeing on our usual Netflix fare<\/div>\n

I suddenly saw folks who were too close!<\/p>\n

THEY WEREN’T WEARING MASKS!<\/p>\n

Soon enough, faces without masks
\nmay come to signify times sad past
\nwhen you could be breathed on by,
\nsmell or taste someone else<\/p>\n

without FEAR OF DEATH<\/p>\n

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I’m usually not down for topical or occasional poetry, with a few exceptions. \u00a0Follows one of them, practically a found poem which began as a tweet. True, one feature which attracts me to Twitter is its haiku-like constraint of 280 characters. I rarely compose a tweet spontaneously without care for economy of means. Brevity is … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Anosmia”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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