Original Poetry by Terry Underwood

Terry Underwood, Poet-Musician
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  1. 08/28/2022

    Oral Rendering: Cookies and Milk

    The tide may be shifting. How many Marjories does it take to destroy public education? I’m trying, breathing my words into the world, so damned woke I have trouble sleeping. I know if I feel this sense of something changing, others do. Secondhand woke. Share this 73 seconds of childishness. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit terryunderwood.substack.com

    Oral Rendering: Cookies and Milk

  2. 08/17/2022

    Oral Rendering of [By the Book]

    James Gee, a wise linguist, wrote about the moral obligation we share to interrogate our own personal ideology apart from groupthink. To interrogate ourselves critically, we must have built primary, personal descriptions of and explanations for reality—primary theories to warrant political action in and on the world. Otherwise, we must rely on removed theories, rooted in shallow soil, or even deferred theories—‘I don’t know but experts know.’ Where do roads come from? Any primary theories? The existential work of primary theory in an ethical human community depends upon a red wheelbarrow, a commitment to the common good. James Gee (1996) clarified the predicate of this commitment through pointing to learned behavior, that is, learning to act in ways that work against your own self-interest if the cost is material or social loss to others. Make everyone whole. Gee argued that teaching this skill is the central reason for schools and schooling—a training manual for participation in an ethical human community. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit terryunderwood.substack.com

    Oral Rendering of [By the Book]

  3. 08/17/2022

    Oral Rendering of [The Taint Test]

    Twist it any way you can. Take the high road, take the low, take the Highway to Heaven. The GOP is hijacked by a cult; it is not a political party with a coherent ideology of any sort. It is a loose band of victims with an anti-ideology in the original sense of the word as per de Trace (1815). The GOP is dead, long live the GOP. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit terryunderwood.substack.com

    Oral Rendering of [The Taint Test]

  4. 08/16/2022

    Oral Reading: Tick Tock

    I love clocks in poetic discourse. Clocks and windows. Time, time, time, see what’s become of me. I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now. Faulkner’s clocks had their own, often discrepant, time, depending on the space in which time was passing, mental or physical or even metaphysical. Measuring lives out in coffee spoons… talking of Michelangelo. The tick tock of the clock of justice in unmistakable cadences. We have been and remain in a dark period. We need our Muses more than ever. It’s a hard row to hoe…but in the meantime… This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit terryunderwood.substack.com

    Oral Reading: Tick Tock

  5. 08/13/2022

    Oral Interp: Take the Magnetometers Down Damn it!

    I watched Fox News for a while this afternoon. Shortly after we learned that dear Donald is suspected of violating the espionage act by taking top secret nuclear documents, Fox News howled that Biden had weaponized the DOJ. Well, what is supposed to happen when a President takes documents that don’t belong to him that could get us into nuclear trouble? Does that mean Donald is entitled to have those top secret nuclear documents in his house? Or what? The Fox heads repeated ad infinitude the phrase “it is mind boggling.” That’s what I heard. Their minds were definitely boggled. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit terryunderwood.substack.com

    Oral Interp: Take the Magnetometers Down Damn it!

  6. 07/16/2022

    Oral Recitation: Day of the Dog

    Still I harbor a smoldering fear of dogs barking in the distance. Life’s lessons marinated in adrenaline have staying power. What is the equivalent of adrenaline in AI? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit terryunderwood.substack.com

    Oral Recitation: Day of the Dog

  7. 07/11/2022

    Podcast: Self-Evident Truths

    Public schools. Reality. Science. Churches. Belief. Serenity. Responsibility. Interdependence. Cocoons. Manipulation. Breach of trust. Misanthropes. Civilizations riiiiiiiiiise and faaaaaaaall This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit terryunderwood.substack.com

    Podcast: Self-Evident Truths

  8. 07/11/2022

    Podcast: Carnival of Fools

    This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit terryunderwood.substack.com

    Podcast: Carnival of Fools
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