Addendum: With COVID-19 becoming very serious, many schools have had to close indefinitely until further notice. As a result, students at first thought that school closures would be considered a nice and relaxing experience. However, students have started to recognize the many effects that closing the schools will have. By exploring E.E. Cumming’s unique poetic techniques using parentheses, we chose to write the thoughts of what many students were thinking in the beginning of this pandemic in parentheses; however, what’s between the parentheses reveals the saddening consequences of school closures.