Category: covid
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Waiting for My Echo
I want a bridge in the wilderness that comes from nowhere and goes to nowhere I want a bridge across a river or a way to the other side of a raging stream or rocky gorge I want a bridge made of rope like the kind we made in scouts so when I get to…
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Social distancing
To the people that gather each day with coolers at the basketball court in the park To the people hosting house parties because the bars are closed To the people who partied at the beach until they were closed To the people who went on cruises because prices have dropped To the people who traded…
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Roofless
no lines wait outside for the lock to click open public libraries are closed city plaza gates shut tight lonely benches sit empty inside it ain’t easy to shelter in place if you got no place roofless humans gather on Main Street loiter in doorways lady in coat and heels walks her dog, averts her…
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Alternative Zoology 101
A squirrel in the magnolias at Gervias and Assembly Is cowed by a pig that ruts on a private golf course. How a pig can cow a squirrel, I do not know. 3-15-20 Written for my friend, Arik and the campaign to close our public schools during this world pandemic
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On the corner of Brandon and Landon roads
2 am, from my porch one lone frog is all I hear. I have seen no possums; even the Mayor of Moonlight is avoiding me. Helicopters come from the fort’s direction; fly low over the park shaking the house. Where are they going? Is it necessary to fly so low at 2 am? Lonely, ring-tailed…
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Questions I ask of a chair
Where is my friend? Did they leave? I came by for a visit, but they were gone. Are they sitting in the sun room? On a scale of one to ten, what was their pain level? Have you been following the coronavirus news? I’m more afraid of sepsis and staph infections. Why didn’t they finish…
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meditations for a grey day
Somewhere someone is marrying birthing graduating retiring dying mourning celebrating So have a Happy, Sad, Joyous, Sorrowful, Melodramatic, Laughing, Crying, Up or Down, in a Fucking Funk Fun Day! 3-5-20 (music of Richard & Mimi Farina in background…)
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Beatitudes
Dear Coronavirus, I am preparing for you stockpiling in a large container in the bedroom ammo for a siege when you come by for a visit to our town I won’t have to fight the rush at the store I am buying Clorox wipes, tissues disposable masks and gloves spray disinfectant cleaners, paper towels peroxide,…
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Dreamscape #5
in this place of talking dead streets are always dark the little shops full of light I shelve and straighten books in a bookstore someone asks for a new book owner says it’s unavailable I go to tell him about a print on demand supplier he doesn’t see me – no one sees me ___…
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