Dan Nielsen with Five Minutes

In which I perform two poems by the great Matthew Bowers set to original music. 

Further adventures of Ray-- If you like anything I do, you'll like this more-- Thanks for listening--   

Extremely rational political and social commentary followed by absurdist prose with an original string quartet piece composed and performed by Andor Ventorpent. Thanks for listening.  

Georgia Bellas performs a Hans Arp poem. 

This is Chapter One from my FLASH novel: "Ray & Kay." You will be hearing more from these scamps.   

This is music from the previous episode without the annoying blather. You can read a book or edit FLASH fiction while listening. You can engage in conversation if anyone else is there. That's me playing the drums and a ukulele-sizes bass with rubber strings. At the same time. Hard to believe, isn't it?  

My dad made me feel like a ping pong ball, hitting me with a paddle until I rolled under the furnace.   

Clark and Terry are characters in this story and have nothing to do with Clark Terry the swing and bebop jazz trumpeter.  

I brought home a petri dish filled with mercury, poured it out on the kitchen table, and slammed it with a hammer. 

Oh, well, that was fun.