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7 DECEMBER NOTTINGHAM AND THE WORLD RENEWED
PARIS IS BURNING & THE PFIZER VACCINE’S AIRBORNE THROUGHOUT THE YEAR PROTESTS & THE PANDEMIC HAVE COMPLEMENTED EACH OTHER […]
4 DECEMBER ADVENT OF THE BLACK SANTAS
‘WE DECIDED IT WOULD BE POETIC IF EVERYONE GOT BLACK SANTAS’ CHRIS KENNEDY HAD RECEIVED A NASTY NOTE COMPLAINING ABOUT […]
3 DECEMBER WHERE WILL WE BE IN 2021?
RECENTLY THE DOCTOR DIED WHO CO-DEVELOPED THE FIRST MECHANICAL VENTILATOR IN RESPONSE TO THE 1950s POLIO EPIDEMIC CLEARED FOR […]
1 DECEMBER MONUMENTAL FLUCTUATIONS
AREN’T MONUMENTS MEANT TO BE PERMANENT? IN UTAH THE METAL MONOLITH THAT CAME FROM NOWHERE APPEARS TO HAVE GONE […]
29 NOVEMBER O WHAT A GREY DAY!
NOT NOTABLY COLD OR WET NEITHER SNOW NOR FOG TO HIDE BEHIND NO OVERWHELMING ELEMENTS TO SHELTER US FROM PURPOSE-LOSS […]
27 NOVEMBER WE ALL HAVE NEED OF THE HAND OF GOD
THE BALL DOESN’T SHOW THE DIRT DECLARED DIEGO MARADONA WHO’S DIED A DEMI-GOD ALSO ALWAYS AN URCHIN FOOTBALL […]
25 NOVEMBER ANOTHER TIME ANOTHER GENRE
IN CLEVELAND MAN BOUGHT A BEER FOR THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS LEFT THE MONEY THERE & WALKED OUT BIG […]
23 NOVEMBER AT A FORK IN THE ROAD
HIKIKOMORI ARE YOU TOMORROW’S PEOPLE? JAPANESE BOYS WHO DARE NOT EAT THE PEACH SO MANY YEARS SPENT IN SELF-ISOLATION […]
21 NOVEMBER PERFECT MATCH FOR PRECISELY THE WRONG THING
IMAGE+REALITY DON’T ALWAYS TALLY TAKE RUDY GIULIANI AS MAYOR OF NEW YORK ALL THAT TIME HOLDING THE LINE […]
18 NOVEMBER UNREALITY
IN SOUTH DAKOTA NURSE JODI DOERING RECALLS DEATHBED SCENES OF PATIENTS BREATHING THEIR LAST INTAKE OF OXYGEN ‘100% VAPOTHERM’ STILL […]
14-15 NOVEMBER COVENTRY
STILL FALLS THE RAIN ON THE CITY OF MY BIRTH 80 YEARS AFTER IT WAS ‘COVENTRATED’ IN THE BIGGEST […]
13 NOVEMBER SECOND CUMMINGS
HURRICANE ETA HIT THE WEST COAST OF FLORIDA A SECOND TIME FLOODS LESS THAN A WEEK INTO ENGLAND’S SECOND […]
10 NOVEMBER A VACCINE HAS BEEN SEEN AND IT SEEMS TO WORK
IT SPIKES THE SPIKE THE VACCINE WITH 90 PER CENT SUCCESS YIPPEEAYEAH! MESSAGES CELLS TO MAKE PROTEINS MUCH LIKE […]
8 NOVEMBER REMEMBERING THE ONSET OF DOUBT
THE PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIAL HAS CALLED THE OLD LADY OF THE HOUSE TO THE FRONT DOOR SUITABLY SOCIALLY DISTANCED […]
5 NOVEMBER FROM THE WHITE HOUSE TO OUR HOUSE
IN THE WEE SMALL HOURS THE PRESIDENT WAS EFFERVESCENT FULL OF HIS ACOLYTES THE EAST ROOM IN THE […]
2 NOVEMBER ON THE BRINK
SAN FRANCISCO’S BURIED IN MUD AND ROCK NOT THE WEST COAST CITY BUT A VILLAGE IN THE PHILIPPINES OVERWHELMED BY […]
31 OCTOBER MOCKING MORTALITY
IN THE USA THIS YEAR’S HALLOWEEN MUST-HAVE IS A TWELVE-FOOT HUMAN SKELETON YOUR OWN GHOULISH FLUNKY […]
29 OCTOBER ELEGY FOR SAMUEL PATY
IN 1973 WHEN SAMUEL PATY WAS BORN POEMS CONSIDERED BEAUTIFUL COULD ALSO BE COLLOQUIAL AS IN THE WORK OF JACQUES […]
26 OCTOBER THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH
WHAT A RELIEF! NOT THE OPERATION ITSELF HOWEVER MANY TIMES THEY’VE REHEARSED ROPING DOWN FROM HELICOPTERS IN […]
24 OCTOBER ASKING AFTER THE HEALTH OF AMERICA
PERSONS DEFINED AS ESPECIALLY CLINICALLY VULNERABLE ARE READILY DISCERNIBLE SHIELDING SINCE BEFORE THE CLOCKS WENT FORWARDS THEIR INDOOR […]
22 OCTOBER SON OF S.A.R.S.
THEY DEMANDED AN END TO S.A.R.S. BUT THESE DEMONSTRATORS DIDN’T MEAN SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME AS CAUSED BY COVID-19 […]
21 OCTOBER ENGLAND EXPECTS INEQUALITY
‘TABLESCAPING’ THE FASHION FOR SETTING YOUR DINNER TABLE WITH ALL THE CARE AND ATTENTION OF A LANDSCAPE GARDENER O MRS […]
14 OCTOBER ALL POINTS OF THE COMPASS
ON THE RADIO A SOFTLY SPOKEN ELDERLY MAN IS INCREASINGLY SHORT OF BREATH THE MORE HE TALKS ABOUT HIS WIFE […]
11 OCTOBER THE SPARK
IRINA SALINA TURNS INTO ISKRA THE SPARK THE 47-YEAR-OLD RUSSIAN JOURNALIST DISMAYED AT INDIFFERENCE TO DEMOCRACY’S CORRUPTION TIED HERSELF TO […]
9 OCTOBER INCARCERATED
‘SORRY CAN’T TAKE CARE OF YOU HAVE A GOOD LIFE’ LAST WORDS TEXTED TO HIS FAMILY BY A VIETNAMESE […]
7 OCTOBER ELEVATION & DEGRADATION
OCEAN LINERS LINED UP IN THE BREAKERS’ YARD BUILT FOR GRACEFUL MOVEMENT BEFORE BECOMING COVID HOTSPOTS NOW PEELED BACK PLATE […]
4 OCTOBER PRESIDENT COVID
THE PRESIDENT’S VOICE IS THICKENING THAT’S WHAT NASAL CONGESTION DOES FOR YOU ALONG WITH THE NATION SICKENING HIS PERSONAL […]
2 OCTOBER WOMEN IN THE WORLD
THE FIRST LADY IS COVID SICK BUT SURELY NOT PERISHABLE ONLY YESTERDAY SHE STOOD TALL IN HER STILETTOS […]
30 SEPTEMBER BIDEN AND TRUMP IN ‘PRESIDENTIAL’ DEBATE
ABSURDLY WHITE AND STURDY AS A TOILET BOWL HIS YOUNG MAN’S TEETH BRING THE BLOODLESS FACE INTO EVEN SHARPER RELIEF […]
26 SEPTEMBER FROM THE WORLD OF THE ABSURD
LAST WEEK FORMER WOULD-BE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE HERMAN CAIN TWEETED ‘SEEMS LIKE THE VIRUS IS LESS DEADLY THAN MAINSTREAM MEDIA FIRST […]
24 SEPTEMBER HERE WE GO HERE WE GO HERE WE GO HERE WE GO
CHURCHILLIAN THE EPITHET PREFERRED BY BRITAIN’S P-M NOT REPTILIAN A DRAGON FOR THE NATION NONETHELESS CRITICS SAY HIS […]