Podcast-FeedImprovisation on an Earlobe
Listen to three poems. The first is titled “Improvisation on an Earlobe” and the text appears on the corresponding post at lifeinthemargins.com. The other two poems first appeared as the November and December 2008 poems for my poem-a-month newsletter which you can subscribe to at davidbarker.ca. They are titled “There Is No Sky” and “Prudence.”
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Beautiful Losers
As the title suggests, this installment of Life In The Margins concerns an encounter with Leonard Cohen. The story is told by a neurotic husband who is worried that one day Leonard Cohen will seduce his wife. He arrives home from work one day to find that Leonard Cohen really is sitting in his living room sharing G & T’s with Suzanne, his wife. But seduction is the last thing on the man’s mind.
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Seventy-Two
Mohammed and Youssef are brothers who blew themselves up and have collected their reward – eternity with seventy-two virgins – only it’s not quite as idyllic as they had hoped. What’s more, they aren’t alone. One of their neighbours is the reverend Jerry who is also trying to collect on his reward, but as with Mohammed and Youssef, things aren’t turning out just as the good reverend had expected.
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Couch Surfing and The Desiccator
This episode features two short shorts. The first is Couch Surfing, about a guy who stays home from work to lie on his favourite sofa and click his remote between the Maury Show and Jerry Springer. But his Karma is off, given that he stole the sofa. He falls asleep, then wakes up all of a sudden facing something a little unexpected. The second story is The Desiccator, about a couple who come home from vacation and notice that their neighbour has left a D27 Desiccator at the end of the drive for garbage pickup. The D27 is the Cadillac of dehumidifiers. It’s brand new and in perfect working order. So why would their neighbour want to throw it out?
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Give Peace a Chance
It was the best of busts; it was the worst of busts, the day I took down Tony Sarducci.
There was once a time when we had such hopes for the man. It was nearly ten years ago now that he made the announcement. “I’m goin’ clean,” he said. Even the papers picked it up. Front page news: “Sarducci runs a new game.” He gave us the feeling that anything was possible.
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