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But i live alone in the woods and don't give a fluttering fuck.

Good question, Pat.

It was a place to escape to. I was in nursing homes for almost three years---weird, I know, but...---and when the pandemic hit, I had to get out. It was a nightmare.

I'd been Facebook friends with Miette Gillette, a writer and podcaster and the editor of Whiskey Tit Books, for a couple years. When she learned of my desperation, she invited...
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I'm in New York (state; Albany.)

Saturday I move to my new home in Vermont.

!

Is everybody ok? Not with me moving...you know what I mean. The new Big C.

YOU HERE

While I have you here,

Can you see me?

Your face all of fear,

Am I an appearance?

My grandfather driving

Down Touhy Avenue

Says he seen a pale horse

Outside the White Hen.

My back is bent

When love weighs

Upon me upon us

All beneath the moon.

~Michael Russell Jones

5/8/2020

Chicago

My little nursing home crusade bore some fruit. Maron brought up an email I sent him on Monday's episode with Dan Levy. I did an hour and twenty minute interview with WBEZ, Chicago's public radio.

I did what I could.

I'm moving to Vermont. A publisher friend invited me.

Here's a new poem.

THE GLEAM

What color is the sky as you try

To recall...
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NEW POEM 3/4/2020

Body Bag Image

Untimely Death Fashion

Political Prisoner Science

Extraordinary Pain Measures

Extra Extra Large

Blue Hawaiian Sky

Split Skull Decisions

Seeing Toomuch Red

God Damn Son

Half Drunk Irish

True Love Facts

Celestial Body Being

Bag

Blue

Red.

I'm stuck in a Chicago nursing home that's been criminally negligent. Over one third of Coronavirus deaths in Illinois are in nursing homes. But it's not because people are old, but because, at least here at Clark Manor, they are forgotten. And there are MANY people under 70 in low-income nursing homes, for psych issues, like myself. And anyway, no one deserves a preventable death,...
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