Loose Leaf Notes

1. Shelter or shutter?

2. The song ‘You can’t touch this’ has been going through my head.

3. I posted the above on Facebook and someone answered with “Don’t Stand So Close to Me.”

4. Wild or Mild?

5. Bono wrote a new song “Let Your Love Be Known,” a St Patrick’s Day gift to quarantined Italians singing to each other from balconies. Listen HERE.

6. And I wrote this: Our hands are not / concealed weapons / passing the cooties  / we feared as children / Let smiles be the contagion  / Be touched by love / Spread goodwill  and let it go viral

7. The word “us” is in “virus.”

8. And rival and viral are the same word with the letters moved around.

9. “This virus is imposing a level of involuntary discernment about the big things in life. It’s a level of habit-wrecking that you’d otherwise have to shell out large to attend a retreat centre to learn and employ. And you don’t have to go anywhere, do anything more than stay inside and look out the window, letting the wonder take care of the fret for a few minutes.” – Stephen Jenkins

10. Poems for Pandemic:  Volunteer Poets are on call to provide a brief respite from the anxiety around the COVID-19 pandemic. Request your free custom poem HERE.

11. Places Van Morrison Thinks He May Have Left His Keys:  Between the viaducts of your dream, ’Neath the cover of October skies, Way on down the diamond-studded highway where you wander, Behind the stadium, On that train from Dublin up to Sandy Row, Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, Half a mile from the county fair, By the side of the tracks where the train goes by, Up on Cyprus Avenue, Down on Cyprus Avenue, All along the waterfall, In another time, In another place, Oh, the water -by Jack Lewis

12. Daffy or just happy? HERE.

13. This ain’t no party / This ain’t no disco / This ain’t no fooling around.

_________Thirteen Thursday