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End Times
I am at the hipster coffee shop. I ordered a cappuccino and they brought it to me in a paper cup. I thought they wanted me to leave, then I noticed that everyone has a paper cup. Ohhhh. . . . .I am...
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A Terrifying Boredom
I'm bored. That is a dangerous thing. I am bored with Living with Corona Virus. I am bored with the frenzy. I am bored with avoiding the world, bored with worrying if the person sneezing in the...
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Long Haul
It is terrifying, really, how one can go to contemplating suicide to being afraid one might die in a matter of days. Bourdain should have waited a bit. He would have tried to beat Corona. My friend...
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Hoping
Listen. Or look, whatever you like. Trump isn't wrong. The pandemic will kill itself. The more people who get the virus this year, the more people who will have antibodies next year. Nobody is...
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Still Open
High school graduation, 1971. I was not allowed to wear my hair that long, so I had to wear a short haired wig--the hair hat--to school. But we were to be free of all that now. It was delicious. I...
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Beautiful Failures
As I am sorting out my files, I see a million photos that I have never processed that I need to. I picked this one to see if I could do it still. I can't remember the process completely. It has been...
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Day Five
The old chocolate Polaroids are fading, even in light tight boxes. Some of them have barely an image left to view. I am scanning what is left of them, but this is the best I can do at this point....
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Never Took What I Could Get
I have not felt well today at all. This has led me to some pretty dark places. They are not comforting. Still, I try to maintain a sense of humor about it all--with others. I will maintain a sense...
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Phone's off the hookNo one knows where we areIt's a long time since I drank champagneThe ocean is blueAs blue as your eyesI'm gonna take it with me when I goOld long since goneNow way back when we...
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Other people's music is like other people's dreams. Sort of. I've never heard another person's dream that fascinated me. On a minority of occasions, I've had someone recommend music that has...
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Meds
I just realized something. Most people I know are taking meds for depression or anxiety. That is why they are not as down as I. I need meds right now. Some of the people I know who are on the...
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Following the Guidelines
I'm sick of people not taking me seriously about having the corona virus. What is wrong with people? They can't read? They don't hear? Jesus Christ, they should go to bars and beaches I am simply...
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Isolation Nation
I was better today. No shit. I am not well, but I was better. . . until I tried to clean up. I cancelled the maids since I am sick, and this was the day that they come break things. I decided to...
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"Make America, um, like, uh. . . what?"
The feds need to legalize cannabis now. They need to tax it to pay for unemployment services. Then, when people get their unemployment checks, they'll run right out and buy some marijuana, and there...
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Paint It Black
Enrique MetinidesI spent the morning reading the news. I read CNN's and the N.Y. Times' answers to "your questions about Coronavirus." They really make little sense to me. Here are some of my...
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Pumping Iron
I am not well yet, but I just read that Tom Hanks and his wife are feeling a little better after two weeks in isolation, so I think I have to wait a while longer. I've had symptoms for eight days now....
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Party Line
O.K. It isn't a story. It is an anecdote. A note. It lacks additives. I've not gone back, for instance, and written in descriptive words. There are no reds or purples. I've not used words like...
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I wrote tomorrow's post this afternoon. But tonight. . . oh, everything slips away. All that was. Tonight it sounds like this.Did I hurt you very much?Do you miss my gentle touch?That's the way that...
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Sick Andy
That worked just as I thought it would. Blog stats dropped dramatically with the posting of "Party Line." Even half of those who encouraged me to write it were out. But on my walk this morning, those...
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