and you never even
opened the door
to take a seat in
the room where
it happened -
I know, for I too,
stood in the hallway,
still and silent,
listening to crimes
being committed
through the doorway
of the place
where I often sat
next to you, and you,
right next to me
inspired by 'It Was In The Boardroom' by Tyler Pennock
https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/it-was-boardroom?language=fr
covid
Sometimes you just need to be calmly reminded of what you keep hearing and finding ways to deflect: this pandemic is going to go on for years.
(Hour long podcast with 3 guests, no transcript. The statnews link in the related reading is a reasonable substitute. All of these take a fairly level optimistic view, not focused on negative behavior or scary what-ifs. Normal will be new.)
https://radioopensource.org/plague-year-two/
-> first draft in response to @ifixcoinops
Growing up in the foothills, every hole i had to dig was sure to have rocks, free rocks! Now living down in the swamp, not a stone to be found, at any price.
I scavenge old bricks for now.
Growing up in the foothills,
shoveling sure to find rocks,
a free wall at cost.
Now down in the swamp,
not a stone to be found,
name a price.
I scavenge old bricks. #smallpoems
Idk why KPFA's Making Contact doesn't do show summaries, but this episode last month was one of their excellent cuts from a documentary, in this case Mirrors Of Privilege on white folk waking up to needing to fix our own house, well worth a listen https://kpfa.org/episode/making-contact-february-7th-2021/
Mis-identification, I guess this is a yeast colony (cryptococcus?) on muscadine sap. Huh.
The middle section on the development and test flights of the R.100 airship in 1920s is harrowing and fun, talking about the joys of being able to crawl all through and over a 700ft craft and make repairs while underway at 60mph, walking along the top and having a picnic at the tail fins.
(comment on "Slide Rule")
Constructor.