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01st Apr 2020

‘We Stay Home’: Jennifer Garner shares the social distancing poem written by eight-year-old son

Keeley Ryan

Short but sweet (and way too relatable).

Jennifer Garner has shared the hilarious poem her eight-year-old son wrote while social distancing.

Samuel, whom she shares with her ex-husband Ben Affleck, decided to use the family’s message board to share his thoughts about staying at home amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

It read:

“corona virus
we eat we sleep we stay home
thrilling it is NOT!”

 

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He signed the work ‘Fitz B. Ireland’.

And Garner joked that things “must be getting bleak”, as the young boy had adopted a pen name for his haiku.

“Things must be getting bleak when an 8 year old boy adopts a pen name and voluntarily writes poetry,” she captioned the photo, urging her fellow mums to “hang in there.”

And people couldn’t get enough of Samuel’s poetry – or even his pen name.

“Preach, sweet Fitz B. Ireland,” one person said, while another added, “Your son is too cute – I think this is awesome.”

Other fans told the actress that they “loved” Samuel’s poem, and praised the “perfect form” of the work.

Garner and Affleck got married in 2005 and share three children together: 14-year-old Violet, 11-year-old Seraphina and eight-year-old Samuel. They divorced in 2018, after 13 years of marriage.