The Year’s Game Of Dodge Ball ~ Katrina Curtiss 6/16/2020

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Kat In A Mask 6 16 2020

Teams were being picked. What side to choose, what side has a better chance of winning? I picked the side that looked most like me, finding the familiar friendly Backs to the wall, waiting for the whistle to blow Then a mad dash to the centerline, to try and grab…

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To Gig Or Not To Gig? That Is The Question ~ Katrina Curtiss 6/14/2020

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StreetFareSA Live Gig

To Gig or Not to Gig ~ Feeling Untethered In A World Of Uncertainty I played a gig last night, the first one since COVID-19 came to town. I hesitated taking it, but the venue is an open air space, outside, lots of fresh, circulating air. Minding that I’m a…

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Only Through Your Eyes by Katrina Curtiss 5/15/2020

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Only Through Your Eyes

A lot of what’s happening in the world doesn’t directly affect me, I’m a musician, private music teacher so that’s my small world. I haven’t played a gig in over two months, haven’t hosted an Open mic, taught a lesson face to face, haven’t done much, outside of write within…

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The Curtain Of Shame ~ Is It Just Me?  By Katrina Curtiss 5/13/2020

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Kat In A Mask

In my world, it feels like the curtain is slowly rising and revealing the reality of the world. It’s like waking up from a dream on a cold morning and someone is slowly pulling off the covers, allowing the chill of inhumanity to chill my bones. The Gun issue hits…

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My Cat Makes Herself Laugh ~ a short poem by Katrina Curtiss 5/12/2020

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Basura Cat Makes Herself Laugh

My cat thinks that she’s so funny Out of boredom she started making fun of me “I see that you’re not making music, playing out As all of your equipment is just laying about “Basura”, I said, “It’s the virus, no more gigs for a while For musicians like me,…

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My Cat Wants To Live On The Moon ~ a short poem by Katrina Curtiss 5/6/2020

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The Moon, Me And My Cat

My cat wants to go and live on the moon She told me that she’s leaving here soon I told her that up there, that there is no air She insisted she’s going, she just doesn’t care She’s building a spaceship made of odds and ends She sending good-bye cards…

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My Cat And Her Country ~ a short poem by Katrina Curtiss 5/4/2020

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Basura Watches The World From Her Windowsill Seat

My cat came to me, lulled into a fog Asking if she was a cat or she was a dog It was such a strange question to hear I picked her up and held her near She said that she was feeling quite confused Day after day, endless stay at…

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My Curious Cat ~ a short poem by Katrina Curtiss 5/2/2020

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Basura ~ The Curious Cat

As some business’ open across the land My cat simply cannot understand What’s different today, than in the past? Wondering why is everything opening so fast? We can go to the movies and not do our hair Does the virus only go here and not there? What’s this new, news…

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My Cat Reads My Mail ~ a short poem by Katrina Curtiss 4/30/2020

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Basura Reads My Mail

This morning, I pulled my cat by the tail and asked, “Basura, have you been reading my mail?” She was sitting in letters, all in a mess Each of them with my name and address “No”, she replied, as she obviously lied “I thought they were for me!” she cried…

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My Cat Wants To Do The Catwalk ~ a short poem by Katrina Curtiss 4/29/2020

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Basura Wants To Be A Magazine Model

We got a magazine in the mail for free Basura exclaimed, “That could be me!” I could be in a model, that’s the thing to do In magazines, TV and Victoria Secret too!” “Think of how all the people would talk When I saunter up and down the catwalk I’d…

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