Month: September 2021

What I Didn’t Know

Poems by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsSeptember 30, 2021September 30, 2021

Invisibility

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsSeptember 30, 2021

Who Protests Against Helping The Homeless?

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsSeptember 29, 2021September 30, 2021

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsSeptember 29, 2021

Letter To The Afterworld: A Reading

Letter To The Afterworld

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsSeptember 29, 2021February 15, 2022

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsSeptember 28, 2021

You Know That I’m No Good / Addicted / Fuck Me Pumps: Me and Ms. Winehouse

When I first listened to Amy, I was a youngish mother with one kid, she was the sassy ingenue with the voice of a seasoned blueswoman. Older than Amy, not nearly as cute, just as wild, and I have been accused of being similarly cutting. Dorothy Parker with her bon mots is my heroine: I […]

Big Thief Triad: Little Things, Sparrow and Fragile Certainty

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsSeptember 28, 2021September 28, 2021

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsSeptember 27, 2021February 26, 2023

Another Planet

There is a pit of grief and guilt and pain that is so smooth sided it is impossible to climb out of. I don’t know if I will be able to scrabble up the sides today. Instead I am going to try and just survive it. Stop struggling, stop climbing and give in to it. […]

Don’t You Wish You Never Met Me? Eros Thanatos Drive By Baby

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsSeptember 26, 2021September 28, 2021

People Who Died/C’mon Billy

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsSeptember 26, 2021September 26, 2021