Too much CNN lately. The undisputed king of realising too many things too late looks up from his computer to see the face of Dr Leana Wen on the screen of his TV She projects a calm, a serenity that has him contemplating the meaninglessness of time and the sudden end of unfinished sentences while [...]
For now… Anymore the days don’t flow into one another they’re wrenched from the top of the stack and thrown onto the slag heap Somebody wants to see how far they can go before the whole thing collapses while the gallery bets on ‘what if?’ But in an empty world, what can that even be? [...]
Image adapted from the CDC website. Every spark’s been thrown out so now nobody is listening The kids have gone out to play their parents are in hiding wondering whether to lock the doors behind them The threat of snow this weekend provokes no reaction What is the difference between caution and fear? (14 March [...]
Image adapted from the CDC website. Fade back into shadow it’s safer there The plague can’t reach through the curtains as long as the light can’t get in Hide now there’s danger in numbers Wait now it’s not safe to go out Freedom is overrated (13 March 2020) Wishes sometimes have consequences—available to [...]
This is why I prefer email. 1 I dialled my mother’s phone number last Friday I forget who I was calling but the area code was the same so my fingers did the walking I stopped myself before I hit the green button 2 I heard my father’s ringtone yesterday: ‘Hello, Dad? I’m in jail!’ [...]
Thoughts. Collisions. At the snap of a finger the scene changes A slap a clap an echo a microtonal shift in the frequency of indifference a crack in the moment of quietude Enter doubt followed by uncertainty conflicting expectations and a decline in the gross national product of Ecuador Time flaunts its elasticity— no time [...]
An oblique perspective. I gave up trying to record every single word It wasn’t that I couldn’t keep up with the deluge or understand what you were saying or form the words quickly enough to include them in my inner monologue Maybe it was those things Maybe it was all of those things Maybe you [...]
Bleh. Every day now is the downfall of the republic collapsed in a heap of fear and venom Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen but you haven’t seen me here Every moment now I’m lost in my screen looking for that Amazulu song the one I heard one time on MTV and forgot about years [...]
Self-explanatory. 1 ‘Keep calm and carry on’— you know that’s impossible, right? Every expert on every outlet in every news market says the same thing: ‘There’s no need to panic, for now.’ Every official at every level of government in every jurisdiction says the same thing: ‘The risk to the average person is low, but [...]
The bossa nova is the Morelenbaum2/Sakamoto album A Day in New York; the news reports are everywhere. I’m listening to a bossa nova The news reports on the latest plague Someone in the New York Times says we should go medieval on it But wouldn’t bloodletting make it worse? (29 February 2020) Wishes sometimes [...]
