Sitting in the Rubble<\/b>
\nby Inez Tan<\/p>\n
Still, outwardly,
\nI go to work, I cook my meals,
\nI do my laundry, as though
\nmy life consisted of acts like these.
\nSix of my friends lose a child,
\nthree get into car accidents,
\ntwo survive shootings,
\nand only one says,
\n\u201cIt\u2019s not a competition,\u201d meaning
\nwe shouldn\u2019t believe we have to win
\nas if only the winner gets to grieve
\nwhile the rest of us bleed empathy.
\nThrough it all, I think of you.
\nEvery day, I miss you.
\nHappy are the brokenhearted,
\nfor they do not condemn
\nwhat they have come to understand.<\/p>\n
Originally published in Zocalo Public Square<\/a>, May 8, 2020.<\/p>\n Written by Inez Tan ’12, a former Editor-in-Chief of The Williams Telos<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sitting in the Rubble by Inez Tan Still, outwardly, I go to work, I cook my meals, I do my laundry, as though my life consisted of acts like these. Six of my friends lose a child, three get into car accidents, two survive shootings, and only one says, \u201cIt\u2019s not a competition,\u201d meaning we … Continue reading “Sitting in the Rubble, a Poem by Inez Tan ’12”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15427],"tags":[49350,49354],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-covid-19","tag-poetry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/telos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/telos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/telos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/telos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/telos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/telos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/telos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/telos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/telos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/telos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/telos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}