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New York City

Outline

I’m beginning to understand why so many novels and television shows are set in the past.

New York City

Compound

Night walk to the corner bodega and I nearly forgot to wear my bandana.

New York City

Smile

The smile is the expression that can be seen from farthest away.

New York City

Diner

Tonight I miss sitting in diners and listening to people murmur and jive, scraping their forks and stirring their coffee.

New York City

Glum

Maybe I should work on my resume. Instead, I press on with reading The Plague, dropping the book every few pages to marvel at its resonance.

New York City

April 25, 2020

Strange how something you’ve heard a thousand times can suddenly knock you over.

New York City

Drain

Sometimes there’s poetry in anger, and I saw it scrawled across the street this afternoon.

New York City

Ruins

Flipping through an old notebook last night, I came across a page dedicated to the first time I saw a painting by Hubert Robert.

New York City

Flowers

There should be a clinical term for the sensation of wanting to look at my phone while looking at my phone.

New York City

Glacier

I remember the sound of white thunder, that bone-shuddering crack as another piece of a glacier fell into the sea.

New York City

Fugue

New York City. My attention span has been chewed up by the news.

Broadcasts

Brinkmanship

Two hours of brand-new material mixed with ambient classics, unholy amounts of reverb, and a touch of Connie Francis. Produced for Mysteries of the Deep’s broadcast on 9128.live.

New York City

Interference

I find myself frequently returning to a century-old line from The Surrealist Manifesto: “Let yourself be carried along. Events will not tolerate your interference.”

New York City

Reverb

I thought I’d dreamt about standing before my bookcase and picking up a copy of The Plague by Camus.

New York City

Mouth

I can’t stop staring at this photograph. I study the woman’s mouth, teeth bared and jaw dropped, probably wrapped around a word like tyranny or freedom.

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