Delphine Richer

About the video-poem CORONA-FEELING

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Delphine Richer

20/09/2021

 

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A year and a half? Two years? Too long ago.

Are we at the end? But how?

When was the beginning?

So much time

Lost, between our four walls.

Drowned in a glass of water

Where we first were stout-hearted*1,

Then sick*1

And disgusted*1.

Disoriented,

In our few square meters,

Where nothing is not running smoothly anymore.

Except us who are running round

And round in circle. Like lions in a cage

Lions in rage

In sweat

Carnage

 

The bolted world is static

In a full domestic gallop.

A dummy society*2

A society on edge,

Addicted to his own rustle

Continuous.

Videos galore on social networks

We must quickly fill the void

This common void*3  

This co-void*3  

 

Everything mixes up

Mixes

Strange

 

-On a loop-

 

 

*1 In French these 3 notions (“stout-hearted”, “sick” and “disgusted”) are all expressed with expressions based on the word “heart”.

*2 Dummy society: in French, “society” and “company” can be expressed by the same word “société”. This explains the play on words “dummy society”. The second double meaning is about “dummy”. In french “dummy company” is called “screen company” (société écran). So in french, this expression is a combination of the two meanings “dummy company” and “society of the screens”.

*3 In french, “void” (emptiness) is named “vide” and sounds exactly as the “vid” of “covid” (corona virus). The verse “Ce co-vide” is a play on words mixing the notion of co-vide (common emptiness, common void) and the covid (coronavirus).

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