In collaboration with Lambeth and Southwark Libraries
This is the Year
Poetry Anthology
Highly Commended:
Life in Lockdown
by Florence Hellier
“Life in Lockdown” is a dystopian book I've read
I wish it could be more utopian instead
In dystopian books, something bad always happens
Society crumbles and then it flattens
I guess this is now my life
Millions of people using Zoom everyday
Zoom creators must be having parties
saying “cheers” and “hooray”
That is though, if they can anyway
We can’t see friends or family
What does the virus want us to be?
Washing our hands 24/7
Tisn’t much fun
I bet that 0.1% of germs must be in heaven
Oh I wish life in Lockdown could be fun and exciting
I guess not now - no-one can be kind and inviting
Lockdown life has not been that great at all
We can’t even go see beautiful places
like Paris or some amazing waterfall
This whole disaster will be a sad memory in a few years
But for now let’s live our lives and hold back our tears
This will be a good story to tell our families in the future
Or spread the word and become a future preacher
In a hundred years people will find this boring
And will probably drop their heads on their school desks and start snoring
But those who lived through this will know and will hate
What the Coronavirus did to us
It made us isolate
“Life in Lockdown” - have you read it too?
How did you find it?
In this dystopia what would you do?