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There is a bread.

:- Doug.

What called you to this course?

:- Doug.

Finally, sing in my own native tongue.

:- Doug.

Take a course of thinking and observing.

:- Doug.

How does your story speak to covid time? How does covid time inform your story?

:- Doug.

What do you get when you cross incompetence with malice? Donald Trump.

:- Doug.

Ongoing uncovering
The play poetic

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1980

It’s not so much
we’ve lost our ways of touching one another
It’s not so much
we’ll one day go back
It’s not so much
we’ll find our ways
as we have a chance to wonder
about compassion
empathy
our treatment of the “other”
about wondering

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What are we observing? What are we learning? What could we be learning?

:- Doug.

This course is a vignette, without clear edges, growing.

:- Doug.

What are people talking about this week?

:- Doug.

I believe in the among.

:- Doug.

This is a course in story as infection.

:- Doug.

What’s the long view of COVID-19?

:- Doug.

Curiosity + Work + Imagination = Infection Morphing

:- Doug.

Make your story as subtle, nuanced, troubling, interwoven as real life.

:- Doug.

The disease with which I infect you is one that disorganizes your thinking, causes your feet to jiggle, and pushes you up off your seat to wobble your spinning universe—for good.

:- Doug.

My work is infectious disease propagation. May I infect you.?

:- Doug.

Poetry is about fun and play.

:- Doug.

I am disease
I am pulling apart
I disorganize so you must
re-gather into new constellations
I am poetry

I imagine you
are poetry

:- Doug.

My job as poet is to infect you with my imaginings so your feet jiggle.

:- Doug.

Making poetry can be play.

:- Doug.

Making poetry in public is a political act.

:- Doug.