#84: Rhythm is gonna get you.

Notes on sex and dating during the year of the pandemic.

Everybody knows that the plague is coming

Everybody knows that it’s moving fast

Everybody knows that a naked man and woman

Are just a shining artifact of the past

Leonard Cohen’s gravelly baritone is distorted as it filters through the speakers of the very beat-up car. It’s a December night in Brooklyn and my date, L., is driving me home. I am on the aux.

“I…