On today's episode, I read from a MASSIVE birthday gift, A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker (1925 – 2025), Edited by Kevin Young. The readings are: 

1. Charles Simic's "This Morning"
2. Anne Carson's "Epithalamium NYC"

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“If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.” ~Charles Simic 

"I love to walk but I can't
I love to swim but I can't
I love to sit in the sun but I can't
I love to smell the flowers but I can't
I love to play tennis but I can't
I love to water-ski but I can't"
~Andy Warhol

"Lime flavored sparkling waters taste like Fruity Pebbles." ~Me

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I love you guys! Thanks for listening. xoxo, Robyn

"I enjoy people best if I can be alone much of the time." – Octavia Butler

"Talk is a privilege and one must deny oneself that privilege." – Martha Graham

"I love saying "refrigerator."" – Me

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"Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them." ~Laurie Anderson

"Do you clean yourself well?" ~Me

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Today's anonymous poem was found in my library book about Medieval Art and was dated Feb 7, 1958! How exciting is that?!?

I also answer some listener questions & ask you some of my own in everyone's favorite segment - Question Corner.

I wish you well, I hope you can gain acceptance of disappointment, and we shall find peace.
With love, Robby

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Today, I explain how I use my fists to understand the days in a month. I regret (again) not learning Greek or its myths. We read Fuyue Anzai, Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg. We celebrate taking walks, aggressively. And something about Doritos.

LINKS:

Buy The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem HERE.

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Watch the Walt Whitman scene in Now, Voyager HERE.

"I am one who does not think that the Earth was made for us. I think that we are first to last strangers on it, and that it takes us a good first half of our lives just to get used to gravity. That it's not easy." -Michael Silverblatt 

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"I think mostly about clothes, sex, food, and seasonal variations. I have done so much to be ordinary and made a record of this: first I was born, next I was a child, then I learned things and did things and loved and had those who loved me and often felt alone. My body was sometimes well, then sometimes unwell. I got nearer to death, as did you." -Anne Boyer, Garments Against Women

"I think mostly about my health, food, the past, and sweatpants. Although I complain often and suffer from depression, my general demeanor is actually quite positive. I wish I liked hot tea and stillness more than I do." -Me 

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"Twisting it in the right hand - I love another." via The Public Domain Review

"Donna Logan felt badly for her younger sister, Katie, ,who was suffering from acne."  via The Bold and the Beautiful: 10th Anniversary Celebration

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Tonight, we have a Recommendation Corner (it's been a while!), a return to Vasko Popa, praise for Valentine's Day whether you like it or not, and some new sound clips 🖤
And I'll miss you forever, Billy. I'm devestated.
Love, Robyn

p.s. can you believe I'm back for a 3rd week in a row? I can't!

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If you grew up in the 70s and 80s like me, you certainly know Geri Jewell. If you don't know the full breadth of her career, you will for sure know "Cousin Geri", Blair Warner's comedian cousin with cerebral palsy from The Facts of Life. I have adored her from the first moment I saw her on TV, and recently read her 2011 autobiography I'm Walking as Straight as I Can: Transcending Disability in Hollywood and Beyond. In this episode, I read to you a small excerpt from a story she wrote involving a nun, some urine, and a car wash. ENJOY!  xoxo, Robyn

LINKS:

Buy Geri Jewell's book I'm Walking as Straight as I Can: Transcending Disability in Hollywood and Beyond!

See Geri on Sesame Street HERE and HERE (with an appearance by Northern Calloway, who I told you about on THIS episode of ME READING STUFF). (and there are many more if you just search Youtube)

Geri's character dancing on Deadwood.

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www.robynoneil.com