Words & Music

by Mike Power

latest

  • Day 22

    Day 22 – Total confirmed cases in US: 337,933 I didn’t know when I was a child That it was you I was in love with It didn’t have to be But it was I didn’t know where I would find The fairy in the forest The angel on Olympus Then there you were When… Read more

  • Day 21

    Day 21 – total confirmed cases in US: 312,249 The public square will always have its necessary function. And nothing can replace the human touch. But remote communication, for work and family, was already a growing part of society, especially with younger people, before the virus made that growth exponential. For older people, those who… Read more

  • Day 20

    Day 20 – Total confirmed cases in US: 278,458 It seems like a dream already: crowds of people barbequing at Orchard Beach or tossing Frisbees in Sheep’s Meadow. I miss the background rumble of human voices, gruff and sweet. I miss watching young people pushing the limits of their bodies with all the energy peculiar… Read more

  • Day 19

    Day 19 – Total confirmed cases in US: 245,601 “We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.” Albert Einstein The reckoning is here. Dylan’s hard rain is pelting the fuck out of us. What we could have done to stop it doesn’t matter now. It will again at some… Read more

  • Day 18

    Day 18 – Total confirmed cases in US:216,722 April is not just the cruelest month – as evidenced by the sickening spiral of the number at the top of this page – it is also National Poetry Month in the US. At times like this, we hope that poetry can help heal the anguish that… Read more

  • Day 17

    Day 17 – Total confirmed cases in US: 189,633 The nightmare we wake up to this April Fool’s Day is no joke. If it were, the joke would be on us. An ordinary imbecile is at least aware of his own stupidity, but our president is no ordinary imbecile. As he does on every subject,… Read more