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 November 21, 2019

Poem of the Day: If We Were Honest

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Poem of the Day: If We Were Honest. By Albert Goldbarth.

Aired June 21, 2017

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    Tamie W
    I can’t even find 10 characters to describe this. All I can think of is “Huh?”
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    Ian W
    Ok I nearly stopped listening as I thought this was going to be some self indulgent piece on who well you could connect words but know it's very honest and quite funny, nice one :-) and yes I thought about sex a lot listening but only death once.
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    Beth K
    Perhaps my settings are off, because the reading was long, stretched out, and thus difficult to hear as a poem. Powerful, depressing statement on state of human soul... but I think the 10-second rule applies only to men. Still, imagery is evocative and surely memorable.
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