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There’s the social distancing chorus (“How she sits alone / the city once great with people”)…

…the doomscrolling aria (“For in much wisdom is much worry / and he who adds knowledge adds pain”)

…the fury against COVID disinformation (“They would heal my people’s wound easily saying, ‘All is well, all is well,’ when it was NOT well”)

…and the uncannily appropriate lines that gave it its title: “All is mere breath / and herding the wind.”

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It’s ingenious and, yes, •funny• — also heartbreaking, haunting, gorgeously sad-hopeful. (That final chorale…!)

It’s an important piece, a salve for the unhealed wounds of this moment, this swamp of collective denial into which our society seems to have sunk.

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Have you noticed how COVID is curiously absent from art? For all the outpouring of art made •during• the pandemic, there has been shockingly little •about• the pandemic and the experience of living through it.

It’s as if the whole experience of the pandemic is too big and too close for us to even be willing to look at, so we turn away and shield our eyes.

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@fishidwardrobe 1918. And YES

@inthehands #BadAtDating
It's weird, though. You would think that it would be because of shared trauma, but if this time around is anything to go by, most people seem to be thinking it's just not important enough? Like it's trivial and/or icky so, don't make art?