Brendan McLeod is an award-winning poet, theatre creator, and musician. On his sixth day of social isolation, he started writing a poem a day. We’re posting these day by day, in non-sequential order, because time is weird now. It’ll be a book after that.

Poet In (Their Own) Residence

Day 7

BRENDAN MCLEOD

I’ve got this thing a lot of white people have called being a real idiot sometimes.

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Day 6

BRENDAN MCLEOD

I never thought I’d pray to see tanks roll in.

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Day 16

BRENDAN MCLEOD

Someone steals a Van Gogh from a museum in the Netherlands and I think,
that’s an interesting way to cope.

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Day 10

BRENDAN MCLEOD

Remember sports?

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Day 18

BRENDAN MCLEOD

My roommate moved out today.

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