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

:- Doug.

Ongoing uncovering
The play poetic

:- Doug.

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.

To make poetry is to make imagination
To make stumble stones out of speaking out to a powerful person
To imagine what a moral life might be
To imagine grasping another’s beating heart from out their breast
To spark your imagining into 2 or 3 others

:- Doug.

Poetry processes

:- Doug.

Poetry’s our playful exploring, to see what we can see, what larger we can become, what larger service we can be. How do we outlast ourselves?

:- Doug.

Poetry teaches
What have you to learn?
Observation?
Patience?
Play?
Exploration?
What?

:- Doug.

Present to us
multiple hues
flavors corduroys
unwrappable
evocative

:- Doug.

Here’s a place to record profundities
or to coax them into light
or to give them birth, bloody and howling

Here’s a place to actually think
and to put on hold certain ways of thinking
there’s a science deeper there’s an art

Here’s a place to find yourself

:- Doug.