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🗓️ 23 February 2022
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Today's poem is Places With Terrible Wi-Fi by J. Estanislao Lopez.
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0:00.0 | I'm Adalimone and this is the slowdown. |
0:18.9 | Hiding has gotten so much harder these days. |
0:22.9 | Growing up, I could hide by the creek or in the branches of a shrub. |
0:27.4 | In high school, I could hide behind the dumpsters or in the creek or by the tennis courts. |
0:33.1 | In college, I could hide by green lake or by gasworks park or in the arboretum. |
0:39.3 | But now, there's a little machine in my pocket that is always on. |
0:43.8 | And you can always find me. |
0:46.6 | How can we ever hide if we attach ourselves to these little machines that are hell-bent |
0:53.2 | on finding us? |
0:55.0 | In the early days of the pandemic, I had this thought that I wanted to be alone for a little while. |
1:02.2 | But I was already very, very, very alone. |
1:07.2 | My husband was working in another state and my dog and cat and I just made the same small |
1:13.1 | circles around our house for months. |
1:16.5 | Still, I could never really hide. |
1:19.8 | No matter how hard I tried, the internet was with me. |
1:24.2 | The doom scrolling, the barrage of news, the world on fire. |
1:30.2 | For a few days, we went to a cabin in Kentucky with a porch that looked out over the popular |
1:35.9 | covered hills and a fireplace around which we'd play cards and scrabble. |
1:42.3 | The best thing about this place is that it didn't have the internet. |
1:47.4 | I told my parents and my good friend who was watching our dog, the number of the main |
1:52.2 | house in case something went awry. |
1:55.0 | But otherwise, there was no scrolling or checking in or ASAP or even looking up what are the |
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