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Collected Item: “Pandemic Poetry, Poem: Untitled”

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Pandemic Poetry, Poem: Untitled

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Text Pandemic Poem

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.

"1816 has been described as "The Year Without a Summer."

For me, 2020 has been like "The Year Without a Year."

It has been like being in "Limbo," a year of Purgatory, the "Trump Bardo"

- that intermediate state where you weather a s**t-storm of hypocrisy, lies, and disease before passing on to the next level of existence.

How do I weather it? With humor, a lyrical outlook, exercise, perseverance, and family."

-Dan Nave

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Poetry, Poem, Reflection, Expression

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Dan Nave

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2020-11-25
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