Words & Music

by Mike Power

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  • Day 10

    Day 10 – Total confirmed cases in the US: 55,225 Fiction, if not the last refuge of a scoundrel, is a list a brief refuge from the number at the top of the page that won’t stop climbing. Today’s distraction is flash fiction and a drawing: The breeze blew sweet in Turner Valley. Slow and… Read more

  • Day 9

    Day 9 – Total confirmed cases in US: 46,485 Starting today, I am going to try to post some original work each day until we can shake hands in the sun and drink a toast in a crowded bar again. This is the last poem I wrote, inspired by an outing back in the pre-virus… Read more

  • Day 8

    Day 8 – Total confirmed cases in US: 35,241 Stop thinking about it Stop thinking about it Stop thinking about it Stop thinking about it Dwelling is driving me crazy Obsessing don’t you know where that’s at Yeah, you don’t know what you want but you want it Stop thinking about it Stop thinking about… Read more

  • Day 7

    Day 7 – Total confirmed cases in US: 26,747 The numbers have septupled in less than a week. The opportunity to “flatten the curve” has passed and we won’t know for a while how successful our social distancing has been. Welcome to the first weekend without restaurants, bars, theaters, and zoos. In keeping with our… Read more

  • Day 6

    Day 6 – Total confirmed cases in US: 19,624 Does anyone else hear the rumbling regurgitation bubbling up from the bowels of hell? No? Me neither. This virus did not come from hell but from our own dear mother, nature. We have not been very kind to our mother. She deserves a lot better after… Read more

  • Day 5

    Day 5 – Total confirmed cases in US: 14,250 Some of us are not coming back from this. I’m not talking about physical health, although some of us are not coming back that way either. Some of us are not coming back financially, even to the place we were a few weeks ago. Some will… Read more