cosmic dream radio laylage
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Stop looking at a screen. Let the images be made in your mind. Expect: despair, glee, intimations of mortality, and extra-ordinary words, sometimes read directly to you, sometimes set in radio-play esque frames assembled from mysterious cables, drift-wood, glitter, a golden microphone, and cheap glue.
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Episode 17: Hotel Eden
Let’s check into the Hotel Eden to relax in the eternal now. “Rowing in Eden” by Erik Anderson Reece is from a collection of work inspired by Joseph Cornell’s bird boxes.
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Episode 16: Rilke's Duino Elegies #9
Why have to be human? Oh not because happiness exists. Not out of curiosity, not as practice for the heart. But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all. Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too, just once. And never again. But to have been this once, completely, even if only once: to have been at one with the earth, seems beyond undoing.
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Episode 15: "Sea Songs"
It is best not to think of words while living. To not think "It is like". To be reminded by.
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Episode 14: "Transcendental Etude"
"The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance..."
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every season something to fear
I see the proverbial tempest in the teapot: teatime, bananas, and my iphone charger are revealed as implements of planetary destruction.
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Seven Yells for Russia--Alain Bosquet
Alain Bosquet's 7 part poem translated from the French by Jean Malaquais. Bosquet was born in Odessa; he metaphorically returns to his homeland to find his poetic voice.