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cocooned

wrapped in single use plastic

and

netflix shows

paint by numbers

colour in

between the lines

red white & blue

markers

all

out of ink

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Doom scrolling

all the way

till the end

game over

player one

i’m all

out of quarters

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Rockets to Mars

No more guitars

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i can’t breathe

he said

to

the man in blue

knees to the neck

boots on the ground

light the fuse

crack a window

bible photo op

professional lighting

by tiki torches

one dead cop

a hundred thousand martyrs

memorial dead flowers drift

turn old monuments to dust

the long night continues

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fake news

fake investigations

fake politicians

100%

artificial intelligence

 

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I was bored

So I made a fort

out of

cereal boxes, maple syrup and instant rice

but i started missing everyone

almost

right away

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toilet paper fantasies

machine gun nightmares

hydroxychloriquine dreams

jonesing

for a bucket

of

hand sanitizer

 

 

nasdaq noose

billionaires get richer

even in a pandemic

we’re all in this together

until

you’re on a ventilator

I looked up a picture

on the internet

for the subject

“community”

but

all it showed

was

pictures

of people

on

their

phones

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Masks

are

the

new

black

 

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Why can’t i filter out

how your eyes

take me in

 

we were all

self-isolating

before

this

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Poetry by Colm Hogan

All artwork featured by James Evans, a Colorado born artist who is now returning to NYC after a quarantine stint in Mexico City, where he has been self-isolating and painting. 

He has an upcoming show at GR Gallery entitled “A Manner of Forgetting” on display Sept. 9 through till October 10.