A score for instant poetry.
First step
Scroll on social media.
Copy- paste texts, phrases and words from people who express thoughts, poems connected with the current situation (yes, Covide-19, lockdown, isolation, quarantine, social distance, digital life).
Second step:
Once you have gathered them, compose your poem.
Instantly, choose words and phrases in a sensorial way. Put them one after the other.
Voila, this is your poem.
Time concerning first step: No more than one week.
Time concerning second step: Try not to give it too much time. The quality of time and the quality of choice is direct/immediate. Let the instant choice define the time. I would propose you take no more than 30 minutes but it still is up to you.
After finishing, write down how much time both steps took you.
ACTIVATION OF THE SCORE
The safe distance between two people is two meters.
I could smell her.
The wet soil and the disinfected soap of her mask while we were walking in the rain, holding hands.
Quarantine_ Carantina_ Antarctica
Pagrati, Athens, 2020. I opened the door skittishly
I asked her.
Shall we meet?
She told me. Yes. Where?
https: //
The love is smelled
Even in the distance of 1,5 meter.
Any distance from you is too far away.
Lyrism in simple steps.
One invisible force made my friends two-dimensional
We all ‘woke up’ in this new version of ‘what is’
Are we all together on that?
The houses as small cities
The living room as small squares
The balconies as small yards.
The aisles as buses
The chair of thoughts
In one corner there is somebody who is thinking.
Waiting.
Silence.
April 2020, Athens