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By Yulia
The podcast currently has 10 episodes available.
Tell them I'm struggling to sing with angels
who hint at it in black words printed on old paper gold-edged by time
Tell them I wrestle the mirror every morning
Tell them I sit here invisible in space
nose running, coffee cold & bitter
Tell them I tell them everything
& everything is never enough
Tell them I'm another cross-wired babbling being
songs coming out all ends to meet & flash above the disc above my brain
Tell them I'm a dreamer, newborn shaman
sitting cross-legged in trance-stupor
turning into the magic feather contemplated
Tell them there are moments when clay peels off my bones
& feeds a river passing faces downstream
Tell them I'm davening & voices rise up from within to startle children
Tell them I walk off into the woods to sing
Tell them I sing loudest next to waterfalls
Tell them the books get fewer, words go deeper
some take months to get thru
Tell them there are moments when it's all perfect above & below, it's perfect
even moments in between where sparks in space
(terrible, beautiful sparks in space)
are merely metaphors for the void between one pore & another
I wake up & it breaks my heart. I draw the blinds & the thrill of rain breaks my heart. I go outside. I ride the train, walk among the buildings, men in Monday suits. The flight of doves, the city of tents beneath the underpass, the huddled mass, old women hawking roses, & children all of them, break my heart. There’s a dream I have in which I love the world. I run from end to end like fingers through her hair. There are no borders, only wind. Like you, I was born. Like you, I was raised in the institution of dreaming. Hand on my heart. Hand on my stupid heart.
From here on out I will be using Spotify's wonderful features as my own personal poetry-memorizing software. Thanks.
In this episode: Moscow by Autoheart, the dangers of apartment hunting in Idaho, discussion of the soybean capital of Wisconsin, and I might be getting a cat?
Also, I thought it would be really funny if I tried to monetize this, so I did record an ad, and I was right. It is funny. For me.
Hello, and welcome to episode zero of Talk Too Much, where I introduce my podcast and begin to flout copyright law in earnest.
The podcast currently has 10 episodes available.