Let my inspiration flow
Shadows of a sailor, forming winds both foul and fair
Just walking without an automobile downhill to Market through run down business districts that never have done worse than today and then by way of the Transgender Historical District into the Tenderloin one parking meter away. Walking helps me get a feel for a life lived ad hoc not so much by design but by accident, punctuated equilibriums threatening eviction and extinction of a vision of Bohemian life in a bigger city then a college town and challenges without number every day. This stack of an afternoon is the fruit of my excursion through the slum of my less than fair city.
No longer can I, bathed in your languor, o waves,
Follow in the wake of the cotton boats,
Nor cross through the pride of flags and flames,
Nor swim under the terrible eyes of prison ships.
https://unherd.com/2023/03/how-the-who-was-captured/?tl_inbound=1&tl_groups%5B0%5D=18743&tl_period_type=3&mc_cid=ffc00edca8&mc_eid=7fea8106c5
https://ko-fi.com/thejournaloflingeringsanity
I hope you enjoyed your walk. There is nothing like having a walk in the 'fresh' air.
Speaking of lies.
Former UK health secretary Matt Hancock reportedly wanted to "deploy" a new Covid variant in a bid to scare the British public into abiding by lockdown rules.
He suggested that a new strain of Covid would be helpful to spread fear among the population in preparation for more restrictions:
"We frighten the pants off everyone with the new strain", to which the Department of Health's media advisor Damon Poole responded: "Yep, that's what will get proper behaviour".
(Daily Star)