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this wasn't an easy one then again for me,, most aren't...




The Coronasonnet is a new form invented by the poets of SingPoWriMo (Singapore Poetry Writing Month) in the middle of the current COVID-19 pandemic.

The recipe for this viral concoction follows:
1. Written in 14 lines.
2. The coronasonnet has been infected by 2 lines from another poem(s) and includes them verbatim as part of its 14 lines.
3. The coronasonnet is asymptomatic for the first 8 lines, but from line 9 onwards, every word is written in all caps.
4. The coronasonnet ends with social distancing, with more and more space in each line. Lines 12-14 include only one-syllable words.

Inspired by the Lines from Celeste Miyana’s
“An Ailing Man’s Desertion”
Two lines borrowed:
“I must lie down where the walls grow apart
In the gentleness of the yet-to-depart.”