Talk Too Much

By Yulia

"Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane covered bathtub?"--Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

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October 04, 2021 A Toast to the Alchemists by Laura Gilpin
Alchemists,
you were right, it is
possible.
We have the proof now.
There are equations.
If you could come back
for a day, if you could
conjure yourself into
this chemistry classroom,
if you could read the
textbook or watch the
professor writing the
answers on the board
Alchemists,
you would see that you
were right, even though
you didn't know about
alpha and beta radiation,
even though you didn't
understand isotopes,
you knew it was possible,
that some elements can
change into other elements,
that transmutation can
occur.
Alchemists,
there is proof now that
it is possible, although
each new element, having
a brief half-life, would
keep changing into other
things.
Alchemists,
you were right, you can
make anything, anything,
uranium, plutonium, tellurium, mercury, copper,
cobalt, platinum, silver,
and gold, you can make
gold, an isotope so
radioactive it would
sparkle before your eyes.
Alchemists,
you were right.
It is magic.
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March 31, 2021 Instructions on Not Giving Up by Ada Limón
More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out
of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s
almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving
their cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slate
sky of Spring rains, it’s the greening of the trees
that really gets to me. When all the shock of white
and taffy, the world’s baubles and trinkets, leave
the pavement strewn with the confetti of aftermath,
the leaves come. Patient, plodding, a green skin
growing over whatever winter did to us, a return
to the strange idea of continuous living despite
the mess of us, the hurt, the empty. Fine then,
I’ll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf
unfurling like a fist to an open palm, I’ll take it all.
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March 04, 2021 Tell Them I'm Struggling by David Meltzer
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
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March 04, 2021 Meditations in an Emergency by Cameron Awkward-Rich
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.
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March 04, 2021 Public Service Announcement
From here on out I will be using Spotify's wonderful features as my own personal poetry-memorizing software. Thanks.
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December 05, 2020 Rogue Podcaster
This whole episode is just me ranting about John Grisham. Oh, and I’m living in my own personal time zone. It’s my podcast and I’ll do what I want with it.
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12min
October 27, 2020 Special Episode 2: More Stuff in Arizona
I had a day today and recording a podcast is cheaper than therapy. Also, the music is at a vastly different volume than the rest of it and if it’s fixable I can’t figure out how. So have fun with that.
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13min
October 14, 2020 Special Episode: Arizona
My life gets weirder. Yes, it is possible.
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7min
September 19, 2020 I pace around my basement, start a new job, and go to Illinois
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.
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20min
September 16, 2020 Episode Zero
Hello, and welcome to episode zero of Talk Too Much, where I introduce my podcast and begin to flout copyright law in earnest.
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How many episodes does Talk Too Much have?

The podcast currently has 10 episodes available.