Covid Extensions: A letter to my lost lover
To my dear long lost lover,
Oh how I miss the warm comfort of your arms, the sweet satisfaction of our additional days together and the ever-lasting opportunity of more time to spend with you.
How is 2021 treating you? Because it’s treating me about the same as 2020, filled with procrastination and growing anxiety that another lockdown will come.
This year has been pretty tough for me without you. I’ve had to complete my assignments in their allotted time frames, instead of watching yet another episode of Grey’s Anatomy. It’s hard submitting an assignment knowing that you can’t have an extra five days to pine over whether you have answered the questions correctly or not.
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? No, because we live in Australia and the last time it got too hot here it burned through half of New South Wales. Instead, I shall compare thee to fours, as they are the ones who open doors.
But now that mid-semester break has almost been and gone, I fear that this time off was not enough for me. It could in no way supplement or replace you. You are the forbidden break… I long to to have you whenever and however I want.
At this point, I’d prefer to get f*cked over by Covid just to have you back.
Lots of love,
– About 60,000 QUT students
Written by Ella O’Brien
This satire piece first appeared on The George Street Journal on April 8th 2021