The Consequences
Covid broke this generation.
You can see it in what is absent–
the lack of social stamina,
the physical folding in of the body
when burdened with too many
people for too long of a time.
And also the intolerance for
time on task or ideas outside
of their own ideas (which
themselves seem empty of passion
or direction or wonder).
You give them a space in which
to write their responses to
important questions, and they don’t
put much there, if anything at all.
And the worst offense to them,
it seems, is to be someone
who asks too many questions or
asserts too many claims based
on the institutional memory
of the system that broke down
and betrayed them in 2020.
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