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by Mike Power

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  • (I Wanna) Hold You In My Arms

     This is another old song of mine and another one of those unrequited love ones. I used to write a lot of them. When you’re near me darlingI start to shake trying to make myself stand stillI wanna hold you in my armsI wanna hold you in my armsBut my hands are filled When you’re… Read more

  • Without True Love We Just Exist

    He takes a drag from his skinny-ass cigar and scrolls through the latest posts on his phone. He adjusts the sunglasses he doesn’t need because it’s not a sunny day. He’s in love, too, of course. Is there anybody who isn’t anymore? If there is, I feel really bad for them. Dionne Warwick sung that… Read more

  • Summertime

    Edwin Dubose Heyward wrote the novel Porgy in 1925. It’s the story of a crippled beggar living in the slums of Charleston, South Carolina. It’s been called “the first major southern novel to portray blacks without condescension.” Dubose Heyward’s wife Dorothy began working on a stage version of the novel and the play Porgy opened… Read more

  • Breaking Dishes – Mike’s Musical Monday

    I wrote this song a long time ago. It’s a testament to my lack of personal and artistic growth that I still like to play it sometimes, and it still makes sense to me. I take some consolation in the fact that my grammar’s improved. You’re always kissing somebody goodbyeYou act like someone tells you… Read more

  • Raymond – Fictional Humans of New York (FHONY)

    Raymond was born at the bottom of the heap and that’s where he was determined to stay. It isn’t easy to push or claw your way up through the fetid flesh that festers among the inhabitants of the bottom rung but for most bottom feeders it’s worth the struggle. Not for Raymond. He preferred the… Read more

  • Catskill Sketchbook #2

    You can take the man out of the Catskills but you can’t take the Catskills out of the man. Or something like that. Lately, you can’t even take the man out of the Catskills. I spent four nights last week in the town of Phoenicia and it turns out like a cheesy horror movie where… Read more