Saturday, early, meds followed by toast and coffee and a nap. A day follows that consists of two rugby matches, one football match, a lot of Pitcherwits puzzles, some WhatsApp messages, emails and grazing food. Of course the hedgehog gets fed. So here we are in the evening and its time to indulge in some Stranger Things series four. So apart for some more meds that’s it, that’ a day resting and hopefully recovering from COVID. However there was one stand out moment. I discovered a YouTube video of Alan Ginsberg performing America. It is one of my favourite poems but I never realised that he performed it as a performance piece and how powerful it was.

I like this stuff and it reinforces my project to become the Poetry Coyote. Its the performance element and the avoidance of the “poetry industry”. Ginsberg’s stuff, like Tempest’s stuff is meant for a room of people of their time.