Thin

Emily Yamasaki

This year I am
Stretched thin
Not the skinny girl thin
Nor the skim, might-as-well-be-water, milk thin
Not even the angel hair pasta kinda thin
 
The kind of
Stretched thin
Makes you wonder if nanny-ing would be easier
If fall 2020 is the one
Where you throw in the teacher towel
 
The kind of
Stretched thin
Makes you wanna
be
somewhere
someone
anyone
else

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Bridge the Distance: An Oral History of COVID-19 in Poems Copyright © 2021 by Emily Yamasaki is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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