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MLDMI/ Mandatory lockdown Detroit Michigan day no 36. inmate no. 54321.

going nuts but observing that the cat is trying hard to speak Italian; obsequious fur bunny of earths devious obliquity.

the wallpaper in the bathroom, placed there by Mrs. Brown in 67, who changed her name from Polish to work in the garment factory / company went under/ but the pattern still looks lively. a girl is holding a basket in the background

. the basket is full of, what looks like, sheep or apples and I do hope it's apples.

I stay up late peeing often and for this a court will hold a hearing.

I've started and stopped close to a billion poems.

one came back from the dead and wrapped around my kidney like the tubes

of janes baby.

something warm and capable sat on my shoulder in the dark.

couldn't reach the light switch/ it left without the cover of darkness/

without using the under-the-s**t-in-the-closet trick or

"collecting the skeletons  of doom, will return and soon", the note read. my blues is yours, I said.

I saw your car/ my bad/ a car like yours across from my bedroom window.

what does it mean when you miss someone's touch that hurt you? I've painted my skull blue

over and over.

but take heart the scientists say: the moon is new

and the Covid-monster, after eating the town , is leaving.

Reviews

[Robert Trakofler]

I'm glad you have the presence of mind to keep a count. I don't know what day it is much less the date and forget about how many days of this quarantine has passed:/ I keep looking at curve charts asking myself is it just gonna do a sudden dip like a Satchel Paige slider or are we in for 6 more weeks of winter:? Poems come to me when I have to pee also need to remember to put a note pad handy next to my luxurious toilet paper roll:) soon im afraid i will be reduced to using the notepad for toilet paper tho... I suppose often this would in fact be a better use

[h d e rushin]

I wrote a poem on a roll of toilet paper....Scott paper as I recall since Angel Soft tears to shreds then emulsifies like prayer or fortune...lol. In fact, I've done my best thinking (and singing) in the bathroom where everything howls back at me and even my rotten poems ring the porcelain in my sink. Thanks my friend for your insight....dana

[Davidgeo]

Isiah Thomas is still an a*****e.

[h d e rushin]

yes he is.

[Davidgeo]

Still the third or fourth best point guard in the history of all of the times. West side of Chicago style.

[redzone]

they don't mention Detroit much concerning that covid monster, nor New Orleans, nor do they talk about the disproportion of Black folks who have been infected and died.... it's one thing to have a death sentence hanging over your head just for leaving the house, but what does it say when it's a death sentence for staying indoors???? or for being turned away from getting testing and then dying from the virus.... and they say we don't need a revolution to fix all this anarchy and chaos.... my bathroom wallpaper has photos of dead people in that basket or it is casket?? does it make a difference which???

with my mask in place, I'm going out to watch the zombies (no not the music group) carrying american flags and AK47's shouting how "oppressed" they are....

a 'blue skull' or a blue wave, there will never be a 'normal again....

your poem even from the MLDMI of solitary (aka 'the hole') rocks reality Dana.... please stay safe, your voice and presence it much needed...

[h d e rushin]

thank you love. I felt kinda funny today...Not sick or anything like that, just funny in an uneasy kind of way. Too much death I guess or just too much talk of it, whatever comes to mind first I guess. But I am well. Still writing and reading which means that I still contemplate art as more than modern or sustainable convenience. Thank you for your kind words my friend...you be safe too....dana

[Corset]

"what does it mean when you miss someone's touch that hurt you? I've painted my skull blue
over and over."
It means you need to find matching earrings, blue is a beautiful color. Start a new Hobby even if you know you might suck at it. Work on an old one to let us know you are still kicking over there, btw good to see you are still ticking them off like a metronome.

[h d e rushin]

dearest: I am, still kicking over here, that is..lol. I've tried computer games..They suck. Then my sister said to get another cat but i'm still finding unknown oscillatory under my couch from the last one. So poetry will still have to be my hobby as well as my vaccine. You're the best.....dana

[Corset]

"still finding unknown oscillatory under my couch from the last one. XD oh dear, then it is best to wait I'm sure! well, I know I speak for all of us when I say thank you for our recent "fix"

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Detroit got hit badly...i know that.
this is so clever. getting so lonely that we would miss the touch of someone who hurt us badly...
just to have a touch...to hell with passion, maybe passionate hate...at least it is something to tap into.
I must be 54322, different jail, though. I have been much accustomed to the wallpaper in my bathroom as well, once upon a time...with frequent visits...while i looked at my shower and thought of Norman Bates.
j.

[h d e rushin]

Jacob brother, yes it did get hit hard....all sides of town, the suburbs, the countryside, the outskirts....everywhere. It's been quite a ride. I hope you've been safe...love you brother...dana