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Cooped up in our private souls for years, Keep them open!\u00a0 We must learn to see, <\/p>\n 16 July 2022<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" or Paen to the Pandemic Cooped up in our private souls for years, caught in this pandemic with our fears, tired of self-examination, we touch our open eyes so tenderly insisting they should close and send us back into the sweet blind Normal we now lack. Keep them open!\u00a0Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-and-after","category-poetry"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ncaught in this pandemic with our fears,
\ntired of self-examination, we
\ntouch our open eyes so tenderly
\ninsisting they should close and send us back
\ninto the sweet blind Normal<\/em> we now lack.<\/p>\n
\ncare and understand what soon must be
\na very different world of trial and strife,
\naverting the apocalypse of life
\non this, our overpopulated Earth.
\nOur choice is now extinction or rebirth.<\/p>\n