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CURFEW 48
DAY 48 – Sept 19 staring into space snail’s pace blank face and no incentive to get out of this chair go anywhere and I could sit like...

JANE CLIFTON
Sep 21, 20201 min read
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CURFEW 47
DAY 47 – Sept 18 I forgot! mein Gott! got out of my car without a mask took 3 steps felt strange breezes wafting past and realised...

JANE CLIFTON
Sep 20, 20201 min read
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CURFEW 46
DAY 46 – Sept 17 constant state of alarm look out red alert on watch too late be ready take care beware hold steady sanitize immunize...

JANE CLIFTON
Sep 19, 20201 min read
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CURFEW 45
DAY 45 – Sept 16 now is the time to draw the line in sand declare precisely where you stand not since the war in Vietnam have divisions...

JANE CLIFTON
Sep 18, 20201 min read
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CURFEW 44
DAY 44 – Sept 15 75 days of hazing in the gruelling glaring media gaze each day feels like a month he says so, do the math that’s 7...

JANE CLIFTON
Sep 16, 20201 min read
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CURFEW 42
DAY 42 – Sept 13 front door key still in the lock at 2pm no one comes in no one goes out again we dag around we laze about our...

JANE CLIFTON
Sep 16, 20201 min read
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CURFEW 43
DAY 43 – Sept 14 this is the beautiful time blue-skied soft breezed green buds sprouting into leaves along the black and tawny trees and...

JANE CLIFTON
Sep 15, 20201 min read
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CURFEW 41
DAY 41 – Sept 12 getting snarky now feel it distant thunder can you hear the drums of discontent (Fernando) the citizens are up in arms...

JANE CLIFTON
Sep 14, 20201 min read
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CURFEW 40
DAY 40 – Sept 11 nine eleven and the twin towers don’t even crack a mention in the news pale by comparison it seems to the nightmare...

JANE CLIFTON
Sep 12, 20201 min read
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CURFEW 39
DAY 39 – Sept 10 keep trying to think of some new thing to do some other angle of the dangle to keep the interest up stave off...

JANE CLIFTON
Sep 12, 20201 min read
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CURFEW 38
DAY 38 – Sept 9 are junkies shooting up anymore now everyone is shut indoors at night and dealers can’t deliver after hours has the...

JANE CLIFTON
Sep 11, 20201 min read
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CURFEW 37
DAY 37 – Sept 8 COVID normal that’s what we are aiming for when this war is all over red rover or détente that's what we want la vida...

JANE CLIFTON
Sep 11, 20201 min read
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CURFEW 36
DAY 36 – Sept 7 dull as a doctor’s waiting room is buying a coffee today masked up and what WAS your name sorry a cloth-choked ‘Jane’...

JANE CLIFTON
Sep 9, 20201 min read
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CURFEW 35
DAY 35 – Sept 6 the plan was 42 this project 6 week curfew poem a day you got this, girl…. dragging on now but to a tiresome stressful...

JANE CLIFTON
Sep 8, 20201 min read
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CURFEW 34
DAY 34 – Sept 5 hey Australia hear us roar we are from Victoria the pariah state you all love to abhor we were winning then we lost we...

JANE CLIFTON
Sep 8, 20201 min read
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CURFEW 33
DAY 33 – Sept 4 I don’t know about you but I have started a thing or two some grand design that came to mind some project that seemed...

JANE CLIFTON
Sep 7, 20201 min read
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CURFEW 32
DAY 32 – Sept 3 we took fresh air for granted that’s the truth a given sweet and clean it blew through open windows in the garden...

JANE CLIFTON
Sep 5, 20201 min read
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CURFEW 31
DAY 31 – Sept 2 no Show! it just hit me this time of year my side of town is go go go with carneys moving in erecting big tall things...

JANE CLIFTON
Sep 3, 20201 min read
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CURFEW 30
DAY 30 – Sept 1 full moon draws the tides the dying reach the end of the ride babies are born the numbers will fall on the full moon all...

JANE CLIFTON
Sep 2, 20201 min read
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CURFEW 29
DAY 29 – Aug 31 night falls so fast even now in spring when the eager sun’s reluctant to go down pyjama’d torpor of late mornings...

JANE CLIFTON
Sep 2, 20201 min read
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