🖋 SWANK Dispatch | 9 January 2025
THE NO-SHOWS PILE UP—AND SO DOES MY EXHAUSTION.
Filed From: Flat 22, 2 Periwinkle Gardens, London W2
Author: Polly Chromatic
Filed Under: Social Worker No-Shows · Institutional Neglect · Communication Breakdown · Chronic Exhaustion · SWANK No-Show Archive
📩 THE MESSAGE THEY REFUSE TO HEAR
“Social worker didn’t show up today.”
“I’m tired of being bothered while I’m sick.”
“I’m not responding to emails since no one responded to mine for a full year.”
“We won’t be home on my birthday.”
A pattern of disregard disguised as oversight.
A year of silence punctuated by missed obligations.
💤 NO-SHOWS ARE NOT JUST INCONVENIENCES
They are administrative abandonment.
They are procedural attrition.
They are a form of coercion by fatigue.
🚫 SILENCE MEANS NO CONSENT
If you cannot be bothered to reply for twelve months,
do not expect the privilege of access.
Absence has consequences—and I’m writing them all down.
Polly Chromatic
Worn thin but unbowed.
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