What kind of movement do you hope to make by burning everyone who doesn't speak the same?
Today's mail brought my contributor's copy of Not One of Us #63, containing my poem "The Secret Language of Water." I wrote and performed it last August as Poet Laureate of NecronomiCon Providence 2019; it took its title from the gold-and-abalone pendant by Elise Matthesen that I wore for the occasion. It found its home in the flowers and moons issue, featuring strange and strong work by Steve Toase, Molly Likovich, Jennifer Crow, Tiah Marie Beautement, Gwynne Garfinkle, and Alexandra Seidel, among others. Long may this little black-and-white 'zine flourish, and all the rest of us, while we're at it.
As the Boston area battens down for the unforeseeable future, we spent the entirety of today on one last apocalypse shop, for my mother as well as for ourselves. Only one person gave us any static for our masks and gloves, though we were still in the minority in the stores we entered.![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch captioned this photo of me, "Sonya doing her best Dr. Jack Griffin."
"I want a room and a fire."
As the Boston area battens down for the unforeseeable future, we spent the entirety of today on one last apocalypse shop, for my mother as well as for ourselves. Only one person gave us any static for our masks and gloves, though we were still in the minority in the stores we entered.
spatch captioned this photo of me, "Sonya doing her best Dr. Jack Griffin."
"I want a room and a fire."
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Did the person giving you static assume you were a coward swayed by the media into believing a hoax? Because I'd be tempted to say, "Oh, I'm doing it to protect the public, but if you'd like me to cough on you..."
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Thank you!
Did the person giving you static assume you were a coward swayed by the media into believing a hoax? Because I'd be tempted to say, "Oh, I'm doing it to protect the public, but if you'd like me to cough on you..."
Hah. We were in the dairy section of Wilson Farms and she said loudly to her preteen daughter, "Look at them, I don't know why they have to touch all the bottles," and I said mildly over my shoulder, "Because we're making sure that we're bringing home a bottle of milk that won't expire in two days," and did not say, "Look at you, out shopping with your bare hands and your bare face breathing on immunocompromised people like me," which was the first thing I thought of, but judged perhaps unnecessarily inflammatory for the situation.
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Thank you! That is useful information from the future. I am still hoping to avoid as much outside interaction as possible: I joke about my immune system because what else am I going to do about it, but I have both an autoimmune disease and a decades-long track record of catching every respiratory bug that gets within waving distance of me and I would prefer these factors not to interact with the current climate. (And just in case I blew it already and am an asymptomatic carrier, I still need that mask for everyone else's sake.)
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Thank you, and likewise, and amen.
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That is such a great photo.
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I like your story! I am happy to share pages with it!
That is such a great photo.
I am honestly very happy about it.
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Yay!
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I remain very very heartened by your mask. (My sinusitis/bronchitis cycle salutes you!)
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Tell your PTSD it can keep whatever schedule it feels like, but it should let you sleep!
I remain very very heartened by your mask. (My sinusitis/bronchitis cycle salutes you!)
I do what I can to be responsible. Also alive.
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Thank you! It did.