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  2020-07-24

  A working mayor, an exhausted president, out-of-touch rich folk: Haikus during the community quarantine

  These poems document the quarantine adjustment period: the first fifteen days. They are news reports, coping methods, and dreams. They reflect the terrifying and the mundane. I began this project on Twitter, aware that we were entering into what would be an important historical event, and assuming that this project would be what would keep me sane. Soon, cabin fever got to me and I lost my motivation, so I set them aside, hoping that they would eventually contribute to the growing body of pandemic literature. If I don't make it through this pandemic, please remember me through these poems.
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  2020-07-07

  Rhymin' COVID-19

  Observations and reactions to the virus' effects on everyday life
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  2020-07-15

  Mangá Tulang Lockdown ni Adíng Kiko, dps

  [Lockdown Poetry by Ading Kiko, dps]
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  2020-04-20

  COVID 19

  This is the final version of a poem serving as reflection on the nature of COVID as equated with biblical evil itself, and as it echoes another poem in the collection, Dis-Ease. This poem is a conundrum using wordplay and numerology from the Kaballah to present its idea that COVID and the demon are the same entity. As puzzled out, this piece represents contemplation on the source and nature of the Disease, seen in mythical/biblical terms.
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  2020-04-20

  Dis-ease: Poetry in the Period of the Pandemic

  Not a "story" in the traditional sense, these are a collection of poems that nonetheless implicitly serve as narrative/tell the story of how an aspiring writer uses the time to harness all the stress, turn it from distress into eustress to de-stress, and thereby find a strategy for survival through creative expression. In each poem, as annotation, the direct connection to COVID is described.
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  2020-03-12

  Love in the Time of COVID- 19

  It's my poem about my family's experience under, and fear of, this pandemic -- specifically during my fifteenth wedding anniversary when we watched on TV news the Philippine president's official announcement of the imposition of the lockdown in Metro Manila.