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POETRY IN THE PLAGUE YEAR
Poems written during the Coronavirus Outbreak 2020
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Heather Cook Woking UK Author of 6 humorous cat books and articles and
numerous poems which have met with some success in competitions,
including 3rd place in the Buxton Festival and a commendation in the
Ware Poetry Competition. I write for pleasure and because I can't
imagine ever not writing. For the past 8 years I have volunteered in a
local closed male prison which has made me think deeply about
incarceration and the impact on prisoners and their families. Date poem was written 19th April 2020 Covid Cell My days are full of birdsong and missing you. I see you in your cell gulping air, a car-sick dog; you lean against the wall, your face against the cobwebbed slits, sucking in the rancid dust that coats the walls and binds the sickening odours of incarceration. What do they say, the ones who think their son could never end up there? 'Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.' How rousing is that rhyme, how comforting the Daily Mail, how good to know that life is fair in 2020 on this fine spring day.
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