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Collected Item: “An Ode to Zoom”

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An Ode to Zoom

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

text story

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways.

I sorrow til I can be free of thee and back in classroom

With only bad memories of the days and nights of Zoom

Crowding my screen with people who wish to be transparent

I hate you with the heat of a thousand sun filled rays

You never send my messages to who they are intended

My voice and an alien’s, these you have always blended

One wrong number in a Zoom ID, I become a student errant

I wish for asynchronous or even class by email

I am required to use camera, even if I loathe it so

Because, when I’m present, you see one fatigued female

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

#ScribbleSociety, poem, Zoom, online learning

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Nicole Bongiorno

Give this story a date.

2021-05-27
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