A Song for a New Day

I thought of Alaia and the staff at the Peach, and at all the other places we’d played. They all got paid hourly. How many people were going to struggle to pay their bills next month if the clubs stayed closed? Clubs, theaters, cinemas, stadiums, malls. Even a day could be devastating for an hourly worker. I remembered what that was like.

“We should be getting back to normal,” one would say. “Before we forget what normal is.”

“We have to find a new normal,” said another.

I’d never done so much nothing before.

hey all got paid hourly. How many people were going to struggle to pay their bills next month if the clubs stayed closed? Clubs, theaters, cinemas, stadiums, malls. Even a day could be devastating for an hourly worker. I remembered what that was like.

“We should be getting back to normal,” one would say. “Before we forget what normal is.”

“We have to find a new normal,” said another.