Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 27, 2026

New Decade -- Day One

Dan Provost's work deals with the darkness of depression, the certainty of death and the internal loneliness he feels daily. Sprinkle in episodes of adolescence/adult emotional defeats -- the reader will find his attempt to describe the quiet horror in everyday events.

New Decade -- Day One

I guess all
the deep thinkers
will be out in droves
today ...

Ready to comment on
what's right or wrong
about the past, present
and future ...

Is it too simple
just walking outside

take a look above

sigh and say

"Yea, still have some tomorrows."

Some of us will
never be prophets or
champions on deciding fate.

Just a brisk walk --

Find your surroundings
enough to plunge through
another day ...

Will be sufficient to
save
another
life.






Article © Dan Provost. All rights reserved.
Published in the March 2, 2020 issue .
Image(s) are public domain.
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1 Reader Comment
Harris
03/08/2020
03:45:43 PM
Cool. We do what we can do. I like that "Find your surroundings"
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