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1:04 AM, New Orleans: A Stuck Inside Poem. Day 19

1:04 AM, New Orleans: A Stuck Inside Poem. Day 19

I felt like the 911 operator

felt a type of way

because I didn’t want to give her my name.

Like I was keeping something from her.

PoetryJonathan BrownApril 5, 2020New Orleans, Poetry, Stuck inside Poem, Creative Writing, Jonathan Brown, CoronavirusComment

We Jazz June. We.

We Jazz June. We.

We are extras lost in the crowd

of Apocalypse Now.

No quirky crime drama starring Fauci

as the virus investigator.

One of my heroes died yesterday

in real life.

The line between murder

and negligence has never been

so thin.

PoetryJonathan BrownApril 4, 2020Poetry, We Real Cool., GWENDOLYN BROOKS, Jonathan Brown, New Orleans, Coronavirus, Creative WritingComment

Jelly, It’s Supposed to be Jelly: A Stuck Inside Poem, Day 14

Jelly, It’s Supposed to be Jelly: A Stuck Inside Poem, Day 14

Just as soon as I thought things were looking up,

somebody retweeted a pic of a refrigerator truck

outside of the ICU. Now, I can’t unsee it.

PoetryJonathan BrownMarch 31, 2020New Orleans, Poetry, Jonathan Brown, Stuck inside Poem, Coronavirus, Creative WritingComment

Airbnb Blues: A Stuck Inside Poem, Day 13

Airbnb Blues: A Stuck Inside Poem, Day 13

I saw on the news

that airbnb hosts are feeling

their gaggle of golden geese

is really an old crow

with a broken wing

straggling behind the murder

and y’all,

I had to clutch

PoetryJonathan BrownMarch 30, 2020New Orleans, Poetry, Airbnb, Creative Writing, Coronavirus, Late Stage Capitalism Comment

Survivor's Guilt on 1000

Survivor's Guilt on 1000

Are you even quarantining

if you don’t have a family member

compulsively texting you the rona updates?

I have two homies in the hospital.

They’re healthy. They’re young.

PoetryJonathan BrownMarch 29, 2020poetry, Creative Writing, New Orleans, Jonathan Brown, Coronavirus, Survivors GuiltComment

Asymptomatic: A Stuck Inside Poem, Day 10

Asymptomatic: A Stuck Inside Poem, Day 10

You know in alien movies

when the whole human race

is about to get obliterated

but right before the people go extinct

they come together and unite

to fight against a common enemy?

I’m not sure that is happening with social distancing.

PoetryJonathan BrownMarch 27, 2020asymptomatic, poetry, Creative Writing, New Orleans, CoronavirusComment

Snitch: A Stuck Inside Poem, Day 5

Snitch: A Stuck Inside Poem, Day 5

If you want to put off a shower

until you get really cheesy, stay stank,

my friend.

PoetryJonathan BrownMarch 22, 2020New Orleans, Poetry, Creative Writing, CoronavirusComment