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If we were among polite company and asked to summarize 2020 using a single word, we might say something like “complex,” “difficult,” or “exhausting,” all the while knowing the more accurate if uncouth answer would be along the lines of “shitstorm,” or even a long, exasperated exhalation of “
Fuuuuuck.”
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One survivor of the past twelve months, Eli Holder, decided to combine the two methods of communication via Doom Haikus, a site that has managed to archive what is now thousands of Japanese-style classical poems tackling everything awful in 2020.
Holder recently explained that, around March of last year, they began feeling extremely “overwhelmed” (whatever could have prompted that?), and thought to themselves, “What if, instead of gloomy news. we just had gloomy haikus?!” Simple enough. Hell, even Doom Haiku’s “About” section is given in a neat and tidy 5-7-5 syllabic form:
Alexandra and Adrian Beeby at Union Chapel Kington Langley A truly special bond has been forged between a family in Great Hinton and a father-daughter podcast team in Kington Langley. Adrian and Alexandra Beeby have explored the history of their small village, located near to Chippenham, in the Memories of Kington Langley podcast for two years. They were recently contacted by the Noad family, from Great Hinton. Their podcast’s sixth episode, telling the story of Victorian villager Eli Holder, was the Noad’s great-great grandfather, of whom his family knew very little. While researching the podcast, Adrian found Eli Holder’s grave, which lacks a marker, in St Paul’s Church in Chippenham.
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