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Honest Chaos

A poetry, fiction, and spoken word podcast. Completely irregular. Web site: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/ honestchaos.substack.com

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1:28

Winter Solstice on I-95

Honest Chaos ·

2024/12/30

It is only a little after dinner, but a womb-like darkness has laid down across the highway. This being the winter solstice, the sky is an endless blanket of blackness as if the highway had slid down into the guts of the earth instead of running the patch of Maine between Portland and Kittery. The only lights are cigarette red from the cars in front of me and dashing white from the cars northbound. We swim down the arteries in our compartments, containerized and separated. It has been

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0:43

Closing the Windows

Honest Chaos ·

2024/11/24

The thing isyou don't realize this is the last time you will close the windows this year. You close them on a day when the sun is sharp like angels' wings and the air bites your cheeks. You're not thinking you should turn the stubborn locks to seal out the fingers of winter frost. You close them one afternoon and then it has been two weeks or four before you notice you have been closed in, and closed off, and the long, gray time has begun. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss

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1:03

Oh, Achilles, you were a sucker

Honest Chaos ·

2024/03/31

Oh, Achilles, you were a suckeryou died and you were forgotten. Perhaps not your name but who you actually were - the details that differentiated you from the other brutes on the beach - and who knows how much Homer just plain made up after a glass or three, and he wasn’t one to disappoint the crowd. If they wanted a little more blood or wanted you to be a little bigger and stronger and not actually have had to fight your fear well then so be it. But that’s not you he’s singing about, let’s be

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0:21

Purpose

Honest Chaos ·

2024/03/24

Each of us is born with a key-shaped soul - we spend our lives looking for the moments we are meant to unlock, where only we are the right answer to a question otherwise unanswerable. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit honestchaos.substack.com

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0:56

Burning a Candle

Honest Chaos ·

2024/02/04

I'm burning a candleas a metaphor for how short our human lives are, us all being poor actors strutting and fretting. But this one here is a three-wick spiced cardamom candle not something extruded from pig fat or gathered from hives. I won't be lighting a lamp courtesy of some whale's song cut short by hard men on three year voyages out of Nantucket - though I may catch the ferry there this summer for a day of rubbing elbows with the tourist elite none of whom smell like fish or have salt

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2:26

Not a god

Honest Chaos ·

2024/01/21

When you start your day by stubbing your toe even before you get to the bathroom and you know it's an insignificant injury in the scope of world tragedy but in the moment the pain occupies all of your brain except for the part still carrying on about how you have to pee - this is a first glimmer that the old gods are about today. But in case you're not ready to believe, you'll have cut yourself shaving and that tiny slice will bleed onto the first shirt you put on and so you'll go

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0:33

Saying goodbye

Honest Chaos ·

2024/01/15

So now you have left us, having run through the number of your days which we did not know were ending, but we came upon like a fallen tree blocking the road just after we rounded the bend. We slammed on the breaks and everything came to a stop - we could see our lives frozen in the ice of time and we stood outside waiting for the sun to melt us back into a new reality - one without you. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus

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0:43

The colors of change

Honest Chaos ·

2024/01/07

The trees blush in reds and yellows at the thought of undressing for winter - soon they will stand brazenly naked, gray, the color of acceptance and surrender. Boney arms are lifted in prayer - do not make the snow heavy like concrete, keep the ice storms away. Let the nor'easters go on out to sea where the fish can look up and wonder at the whirling mystery of the airy world. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit

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0:47

My People

Honest Chaos ·

2023/06/11

My peoplemarried theirfirst cousinsand passed oncrooked backsand congenitaldeafness -my peoplescraped desert island hillsinto terracesand pleadedwith the earth -my peoplegathered the rainin cisternshidden beneath their huts. There was neverenough,and povertyonly begets beauty and generosity in the movies.It's only truechildren are fearand jealousy.And that is whymy people set sailand did not return. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access

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0:59

The First Day of Spring

Honest Chaos ·

2023/06/04

Spoken word. See text at https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-first-day-of-spring.html This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit honestchaos.substack.com

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0:52

Friend from Childhood's Last Days

Honest Chaos ·

2023/05/11

Friend from Childhood's Last DaysWould I recognize youall these years laterfriend from childhood's last days?From bottomless time playing Atariand banana seat bicycles riding over cracked sidewalkslate into summer nights?How have you aged, with adad-bod belly and a receding hairline?or are you just divorce-worn,living aloneexcept every other weekend?What have you become, what with your skills at Space Invadersand your facility with the Rubic's Cube?If you saw me,would you know me?Would

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2:15

Leonardo's First Flight

Honest Chaos ·

2023/01/07

Spoken word. Text here: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2023/01/leonardos-first-flight.html This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit honestchaos.substack.com

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1:43

the residents

Honest Chaos ·

2022/12/23

Spoken word.More at https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-residents.html This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit honestchaos.substack.com

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1:01

unleashed

Honest Chaos ·

2022/11/29

Spoken word. Words here:https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/11/unleashed.html This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit honestchaos.substack.com

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1:51

When it was not

Honest Chaos ·

2022/11/03

Spoken word.https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/11/when-it-was-not.html This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit honestchaos.substack.com

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1:03

how it begins, again

Honest Chaos ·

2022/06/10

Text at https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/06/how-it-begins-again.html This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit honestchaos.substack.com

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0:44

Us who are lucky

Honest Chaos ·

2022/05/11

Spoken word piece about running out of time.see written piece here: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/05/us-who-are-lucky.html This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit honestchaos.substack.com

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1:02

I am only a fool

Honest Chaos ·

2022/04/01

Spoken word piece - some days you can't be.words: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/04/i-am-only-fool.html This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit honestchaos.substack.com

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0:38

gluttony

Honest Chaos ·

2022/03/18

A spoken word piece about gluttony, one of the seven deadly sinsWritten here: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/03/gluttony.html This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit honestchaos.substack.com

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0:32

banishment

Honest Chaos ·

2022/03/18

A spoken word piece about Envy, the worst of the 7 deadly sinswritten: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/03/banishment.html This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit honestchaos.substack.com

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