<p>All that's in this poem is pre-brain surgery. And any redux of this has to be understood, for the poem presses its own understanding on our awareness. Because the review of my life about which I speak here was the first real review, and since then brain surgery has surpassed any estimation I have ever had of recovery.</p>

All that's in this poem is pre-brain surgery. And any redux of this has to be understood, for the poem presses its own understanding on our awareness. Because the review of my life about which I speak here was the first real review, and since then brain surgery has surpassed any estimation I have ever had of recovery.

Episode 53: Scents

John's podcasts and poems are frozen still moments recorded as mental photos that run in the reader's imagination like full films. As both participant and chronicler John removes himself from the action, makes his observations quickly (and hopefully cogently) and then escape. If John is a good observer, he sees things that by themselves are extraordinary revelations about each of us which seem as caricatures rooted in ordinary life and amplified by the focus of each person's mind on the "other" … ourselves. In other words, if a kid is "an indefatigable nose picker with bluster all his own" we get a complex message about human behavior that we got from an unmentionable source: us. Long after hearing  John's podcasts and poems, the scenes he describe live "rent free" in the reader's mind.

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John's podcasts and poems are frozen still moments recorded as mental photos that run in the reader's imagination like full films. As both participant and chronicler John removes himself from the action, makes his observations quickly (and hopefully cogently) and then escape. If John is a good observer, he sees things that by themselves are extraordinary revelations about each of us which seem as caricatures rooted in ordinary life and amplified by the focus of each person's mind on the "other" … ourselves. In other words, if a kid is "an indefatigable nose picker with bluster all his own" we get a complex message about human behavior that we got from an unmentionable source: us. Long after hearing John's podcasts and poems, the scenes he describe live "rent free" in the reader's mind.

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