Words & Music by Mike Power

Tag: live performance

  • Day 39

    Day 39 – Total confirmed cases in US: 842,624 If familiarity breeds contempt, what is it that social distancing breeds? If you are like me, it breeds a yearning to close that distance. I hadn’t realized until recently how much I enjoy people-watching. I have spent many long hours in Grand Central Station, at Yankee…

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  • Tripping

    A funny thing or two happened on my way home from a reading last week. After spending the evening with two of my favorite people in the world, having dinner and listening to poetry and music at the Bowery Poetry Club, I got on the train to go home and looked at my phone. An…

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  • A Reading

    Last Sunday I fell on my face. Not figuratively, which would have been worse, but literally. I was taking the stage at Bowery Poetry when I tripped on the stairs and fell down, my glasses skittering off into the shadows. That might explain the slightly stricken look on my face. Here is the poem I…

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  • Magdalena (live)

    Do you ever continue to believe in something, even after you find out it doesn’t exist? I do it all the time. This song is called Magdalena…   I know Magdalena’s not real but I still remember how she made me feel it’s a lie no truth can conceal and I miss Magdalena oh yea,…

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  • I’m Not Afraid (live)

    I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s noticed that these are kind of dark times in some ways. There’s a lot of anger and hate in the air, you can feel it, people are…everybody seems like they’re pissed off. I hear people yelling on the streets, at each other, and it can be discouraging,…

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