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Collected Item: “The microscopic tick”

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The microscopic tick

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.

A mask is like a microscopic tick

We can't see it, but we can feel it, ick

As I peel

(the microscopic tick) off my face

I'm repulsed

I declare an appeal, “senit!”

the microscopic tick

has succeeded in form of fear

It's won the battle

Yet Covid is still here

As I look on the ground (all around)

the microscopic ticks

are swarming in the air

the dirty masks lay there…

Breathless, weightless, thoughtless, penniless

with an unconscious stare

microscopic tick!

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#ScribbleSociety, poem, mask

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

Victoria Conerly

Give this story a date.

2021-05-26
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