The Pushouts By Aqueila M. Lewis-Ross The City that nevers sleeps is silent Forced to quarantine like everyone else No wonder the Mayor complains Dollars were always made here But now she sleeps It’s hot as hell and hades is awakened The homeless made visible Letting flesh burn while laying onContinue reading “Dispatch #029”
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Dispatch #027
77 Days and Counting By Jan Holliday How do we measure this Pandemic supermarket lines the bar meter how much bathroom tissue on the supermarket shelves numerating faith it will end sometime or is it the number of bathroom tissues hidden on the top shelf of the garage like the whiskey bottlesContinue reading “Dispatch #027”
Dispatch #017
April 28 2020 case number: 0819999 | save what dates? | case number: 0812000 By Dena Rod missing: the pleasure that comes from the pressure of bodies against your own in the dark bass pulsing and sweat sticking. last seen at new year’s eve shrieking amongst its kingdom as it waved through the party. anyContinue reading “Dispatch #017”
Dispatch #013
2 Poems By Caitlin Krause explaining to my dog about coronavirus she doesn’t understand anything about this time except maybe the joy that I have become her new best friend always around, always beside her in a way neither of us expected I find myself crawling on all fours, tongue lolling out, my playfulContinue reading “Dispatch #013”
Dispatch #011
Cold Gin and a Pandemic By Georgina Marie April 27, 2020 I’m writing this on Monday April 27, 2020 and I had to Google when the Shelter in Place in my town began. It was March 19th. The days have been blurring together so fiercely that I seemed to forget when all of this began. Continue reading “Dispatch #011”
