1 00:00:01,720 --> 00:00:11,320 Speaker 1: Cool Zone Media bork Clorb bloork Clorb, bloork Clorb. Hello 2 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:14,240 Speaker 1: and welcome to Cool Zone Media bork Clorb, the only 3 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:16,480 Speaker 1: bork cloor board. You don't have to do the reading 4 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 1: because I do it for you. Wait, No book club, 5 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:23,159 Speaker 1: the only book club where you don't have to do 6 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:25,960 Speaker 1: the reading because I do it for you. I'm your host, 7 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 1: Margaret Kiljoy, and today I'm going to read some poetry. 8 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:34,320 Speaker 1: I'm going to read some poetry to you. I'm not sorry, 9 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:38,800 Speaker 1: because April is National Poetry Month, and so we figured 10 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:41,920 Speaker 1: we'd read you some poetry from a prominent anarchist, feminist, writer, 11 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 1: and public speaker, Voltering Declaire. Voltering Declaire, if you haven't 12 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:50,080 Speaker 1: heard of her, she's like nineteenth century right. She was 13 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:53,560 Speaker 1: radicalized to anarchism by the Haymarket Affair of eighteen eighty 14 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 1: six in Chicago. See the very first episode of the 15 00:00:57,200 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 1: podcast Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff about that story? 16 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 1: And why you have an eight hour work day? I 17 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:03,880 Speaker 1: don't know anyone who has an eight hour work day? 18 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:08,200 Speaker 1: Why we ostensibly have an eight hour work day? She 19 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 1: was a lifelong advocate for free thought, women's liberation, atheism, 20 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:17,680 Speaker 1: and anti theism and anarchy and spoke fiercely against authoritarianism 21 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 1: and state repression. She was a friend of Emma Goldman, 22 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 1: Alexander Berkman, Lucy Parsons, the IWW, some of the people 23 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 1: I talk about all the time on my podcast, and 24 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 1: also the broader Philadelphia and Chicago anarchist scenes. Her politics 25 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:36,319 Speaker 1: were influenced by her lived experience with extreme poverty and 26 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:40,039 Speaker 1: gender based violence, as well as chronic illness and disability. 27 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:42,840 Speaker 1: She passed away in nineteen twelve at the age of 28 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:46,560 Speaker 1: forty five after a long and painful period of decline. 29 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: She was buried in Waldheim Cemetery now called the Forest 30 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: Home Cemetery in Chicago, which is kind of the pilgrimage 31 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 1: place of choice for American anarchists, right next to the 32 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: Haymarket Martyrs whose executions changed her life. And remember that 33 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:06,520 Speaker 1: name Waldheim because it will come up in her poems. 34 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:09,400 Speaker 1: After her death, she was remembered by her friend Emma 35 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 1: Goldman as the quote most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman 36 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:17,800 Speaker 1: America ever produced. Maxnet Law honors are more simply as 37 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 1: quote the pearl of anarchy. She was asked why she 38 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 1: considered herself an anarchist and she responded because I cannot 39 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 1: help it. And today we're going to read some of 40 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 1: her poetry. She wrote prolifically her whole life and published 41 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 1: in all the radical journals of the time. Newspapers were 42 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:37,960 Speaker 1: just a huge thing. Just every radical had their newspaper 43 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 1: and they had huge distributions. You're talking tens hundreds of 44 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 1: thousands of copies of things going around. So this is 45 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 1: a bigger deal than it might sound when we think 46 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 1: about like the newspapers of this or that radical clique 47 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:55,520 Speaker 1: right now, we aren't thinking in the same scale. Usually 48 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:01,839 Speaker 1: published in Lucifer the Light Bearer, The Rebel, Free Society, 49 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 1: and Mother Earth, and will read her poems about revolution, martyrdom, grief, 50 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 1: the systemic violence of racial capitalism, the Mexican Revolution, a 51 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:14,560 Speaker 1: lilting lyric poem that could probably best be described as 52 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 1: an inside joke between friends, and one that I can 53 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 1: only describe as heretic pride or maybe staging a revolution 54 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:25,400 Speaker 1: against God and Heaven. These poems come from a volume 55 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:28,240 Speaker 1: of her work edited by her longtime comrade and literary 56 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:32,360 Speaker 1: friend Sasha Berkman, who I haven't covered on the show yet. Besides, 57 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 1: he shot a robber baron who was killing a bunch 58 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 1: of workers. He tried to break out of prison. He 59 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 1: was bisexual, king Yeah, Sasha Berkman's Cool. These were collected 60 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: into a volume of her work edited by Sasha Berkman 61 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 1: in tribute to her memory after her passing. So the 62 00:03:53,000 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 1: poetry of altering declare the hurricane. We are birds of 63 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 1: the coming storm. August spies. The tide is out, The 64 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: wind blows off the shore, bare burn the white sands 65 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 1: in the scorching sun. The sea complains, but its great 66 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 1: voice is low, bitter, thy woes, O people, And the 67 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:24,599 Speaker 1: burden hardly to be borne, wearily grows, O people, all 68 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 1: the aching of thy pierced heart, bruised and torn. But 69 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 1: yet thy time is not and low, thy moaning desert 70 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:37,800 Speaker 1: thy sands. Not yet is thy breath hot, vengefully blowing. 71 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:42,919 Speaker 1: It wafts o'er lifted hands. The tide has turned, the 72 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 1: vein veer slowly round. Slow clouds are sweeping o'er the 73 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 1: blinding light, white crests curl on the sea. Its voice 74 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 1: grows deep, angry, thy heart, O people, and it's bleeding fire, 75 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 1: tipped with rising hate. Thy clasped hands part O people, 76 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,800 Speaker 1: for thy praying warmed not the desolation. God did not 77 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:10,159 Speaker 1: hear thy moan. Now it is swelling to a great 78 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:15,000 Speaker 1: drowning cry, a dark wind cloud, a groan now backward, 79 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 1: veering from that death sky. The tide flows in, the 80 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:23,479 Speaker 1: wind roars from the depths the world white sand heaps 81 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:27,559 Speaker 1: with the foam, white waves, thundering, the sea rolls o'er 82 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 1: the shell crunched wall. Strong is thy rage o people 83 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:37,160 Speaker 1: in its fury, hurling thy tyrants down. Thou meetest wage 84 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 1: o people, very swiftly. Now that thy hate is grown. 85 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 1: Thy time at last is come thou heapest anguish, where 86 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 1: thou thyself wert bear no longer to thy dumb God. 87 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 1: Clasped and kneeling, Thou answered thine own prayer. See Isle Sitty, 88 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:05,800 Speaker 1: New Jersey, August eighteen eighty nine. All right, next poem optimism. 89 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:09,479 Speaker 1: There's a love supreme in the great hereafter the buds 90 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 1: of earth are bloom in heaven. The smiles of the 91 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:15,720 Speaker 1: world are ripples of laughter when back to its aiden, 92 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 1: the soul is given, and the tears of the world, 93 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:22,400 Speaker 1: though long and flowing water the fields of the bye 94 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 1: and bye, they fall as dews on the sweet grass. Growing, 95 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 1: When fountains of sorrow and grief r undry, though clouds 96 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:34,040 Speaker 1: hang over the furrows now sowing, there's a harvest sun 97 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:37,600 Speaker 1: wreath in the after sky. No love is wasted, no 98 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: heart beats vainly. There's a vast perfection beyond the grave, 99 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:45,920 Speaker 1: up the bays of heaven. The stars shine plainly, the 100 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 1: stars lying dim on the brow of the wave. And 101 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 1: the lights of our loves, though they flicker and wane, 102 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 1: they shall shine all undimmed in the ether nave, For 103 00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:00,480 Speaker 1: the altars of gods are lit with souls, fan of 104 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 1: flaming with love, where the star wind rolls Saint John's 105 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 1: Michigan eighteen eighty nine. But do you know what isn't 106 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 1: a poem but has its own certain poetry? That's right? 107 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 1: Maybe advertisement is the poetry of our time in that 108 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 1: most people don't want to listen to it. No, it's 109 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 1: not poetry at all. It adds. It's just a thing 110 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 1: that happens. I don't know. Here's the ads, and we're back. 111 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 1: This poem is called at the Grave in Waldheim, which 112 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 1: is yeah, where she is later buried next to some 113 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 1: of her heroes, the Haymarket Martyrs. Quiet they lie in 114 00:07:56,840 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 1: their shrouds of rest, their lids kissed clothes, the lips 115 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 1: of peace over each pulseless and painless breast. The hands 116 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:09,640 Speaker 1: lie folded and softly pressed as a dead dove presses 117 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 1: a broken nest. Ah, broken hearts were the price of these. 118 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 1: The lips of their anguish are cold and still. For 119 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 1: them are the clouds and the gloom all past. No 120 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 1: longer the woe of the world can thrill the cords 121 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:27,840 Speaker 1: of those tender hearts, or fill the silent dead house. 122 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 1: The people's will has mapped asunder the strings. At last, 123 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 1: the people's will. Ah. In years to come, Dearly you'll 124 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:40,720 Speaker 1: weep that ye did not save. Do ye not hear 125 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:44,439 Speaker 1: now the muffled drum, the tramping feet, and the ceaseless 126 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 1: hum of the million marchers, trembling dumb in their tread 127 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:53,840 Speaker 1: to a yawning giant grave. And yet, ah, yet there's 128 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:57,320 Speaker 1: a rift of white tis breaking over the martyr shrine. 129 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 1: Halt there, ye, doomed. One bathes the night as lightning 130 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 1: darts from its scabbard, bright and sweeps the face of 131 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:09,080 Speaker 1: sky with light. No more shall be spilled out the 132 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:12,600 Speaker 1: blood red wine. These are the words it has written 133 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:16,320 Speaker 1: there keen as the lance of the northern morn. The 134 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:19,840 Speaker 1: sword of Justice gleams in its glare, and the arm 135 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 1: of Justice, upraised and bare, is true to strike, Aye, 136 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:27,440 Speaker 1: tis strong to dare it will fall where the curse 137 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:30,760 Speaker 1: of our land is born. No more shall the necks 138 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 1: of nations be crushed, no more to dark tyrannies throne 139 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:38,760 Speaker 1: bend the knee. No more an abjection be ground to 140 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:43,640 Speaker 1: the dust by their widows, their orphans, our dead comrades, 141 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 1: Trust by the brave heartbeat stilled by the brave voices hushed, 142 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:55,960 Speaker 1: We swear that humanity yet shall be free Pittsburgh, eighteen 143 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 1: eighty nine. Its next poem is called Light upon Waldeim, 144 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:05,640 Speaker 1: and the figure on the monument over the grave of 145 00:10:05,679 --> 00:10:08,920 Speaker 1: the Chicago Martyrs in the Waldheim Cemetery is a warrior 146 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:12,320 Speaker 1: woman dropping with her left hand a crown upon the 147 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:15,240 Speaker 1: forehead of a fallen man, just past his agony, and 148 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 1: her right hand is drawing a dagger from her bosom. 149 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:25,439 Speaker 1: This is worth knowing Light upon Waldheim, And the earth 150 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 1: is gray, a bitter wind is driving from the north, 151 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:33,560 Speaker 1: The stone is cold. The strange cold whispers say what 152 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:37,400 Speaker 1: do ye hear? With death. Go forth, go forth is 153 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 1: this thy word, O mother, with stern eyes crowning thy 154 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:44,920 Speaker 1: dead with stone caressing touch. May we not weep o'er 155 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,400 Speaker 1: him that martyred lies slain in our name, for that 156 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:51,640 Speaker 1: he loved us much? May we not linger till the 157 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:55,800 Speaker 1: day is broad. Nay, none are stirring in the stinging dawn, 158 00:10:56,640 --> 00:10:59,960 Speaker 1: None but poor wretches that make no moan to God? 159 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:04,200 Speaker 1: What use are these? O vow? With dagger drawn, go forth, 160 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 1: go forth, stand not to weep. For these till weakened 161 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:13,079 Speaker 1: with your weeping Like the snow, ye melt dissolving in 162 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 1: a coward piece. Light upon Waldheim, brother, Let us go, London, 163 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:25,600 Speaker 1: October eighteen ninety seven. Can The next poem is called 164 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:32,440 Speaker 1: The road Builders, opens with a little parenthetical aside, who 165 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:35,720 Speaker 1: built the beautiful roads? Queried a friend of the present order. 166 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 1: As we walked one day along the macmadized driveway of 167 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 1: Fairmount Park, I saw them toiling in the blistering sun, 168 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:48,680 Speaker 1: their dull, dark faces leaning toward the stone, their knotted 169 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:53,680 Speaker 1: fingers grasping the rude toombs, their rounded shoulders narrowing in 170 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:58,080 Speaker 1: their chest, the sweat drops dripping in great painful beads. 171 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:01,880 Speaker 1: I saw one fall his forehead on the rock, the 172 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:05,559 Speaker 1: helpless hand still clutching at the spade, the slack mouth 173 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:09,800 Speaker 1: full of earth, and he was dead. His comrades gently 174 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:13,680 Speaker 1: turned his face until the fierce sun glittered hard upon 175 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:18,320 Speaker 1: his eyes wide open, staring at the cruel sky. The 176 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:22,000 Speaker 1: blood yet ran upon the jagged stone, but it was ended. 177 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:26,320 Speaker 1: He was quite quite dead, driven to death beneath the 178 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:29,800 Speaker 1: burning sun, driven to death upon the road he built. 179 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:34,680 Speaker 1: He was no hero. He a poor black man, taking 180 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:38,319 Speaker 1: the will of God and asking nought. Think of him. Thus, 181 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:41,960 Speaker 1: when next your horses feet strike out the flint spark 182 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:45,760 Speaker 1: from the gleaming road, think that for this, this common thing, 183 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 1: the road, a human creature died. Tis a blood gift 184 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:54,199 Speaker 1: to an o'er reaching world that does not think ignorant, 185 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:58,840 Speaker 1: mean and soulless. Was he well still human? And you 186 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:04,600 Speaker 1: drive upon his co Worps, Philadelphia, July twenty fourth, nineteen hundred. 187 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:09,680 Speaker 1: The next poem is called marsh Bloom, and it's dedicated 188 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:13,560 Speaker 1: to Gaetano Breshi. Gaetana Brushy. I don't have my notes 189 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:15,679 Speaker 1: in front of me, but he was this Italian immigrant 190 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:19,120 Speaker 1: who lived in Patterson New Jersey worked as a shoemaker, 191 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:25,520 Speaker 1: and one day when the Italian King Mberto two, I think, 192 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 1: gave an award to a man who had gonned down 193 00:13:29,559 --> 00:13:33,000 Speaker 1: hundreds and hundreds of workers who had peacefully demonstrated for bread. 194 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:35,360 Speaker 1: You know, they had been like, hey, we're hungry, and 195 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:38,760 Speaker 1: the government had killed them all. Gaetano Breshi was like, 196 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 1: you know, I can't really just sit around and make 197 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:45,079 Speaker 1: shoes in New Jersey. So he bought a gun in 198 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:47,800 Speaker 1: a one way ticket to Italy and he killed King 199 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:53,360 Speaker 1: Emberto two and his comrades then raised his kid. That's 200 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:59,839 Speaker 1: Gaetana Brushy. This poem is called marsh Bloom Requiem, Requiem 201 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:05,920 Speaker 1: blood red blossom of poisoned stem broken for man, swamp 202 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 1: sunk leafage and dungeon bloom seated bearer of royal doom? 203 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:14,320 Speaker 1: What now is the ban? What to thee is the 204 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:18,679 Speaker 1: island grave? With desert wind and desolate wave? Will they 205 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 1: silence death? Can they weight thee now with the heaviest stone? 206 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 1: Can they lay aught on thee with thee alone? Thou 207 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:32,240 Speaker 1: hast conquered breath? Lo it is finished a man for 208 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:35,480 Speaker 1: a king mark you well, who have done this thing? 209 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:39,680 Speaker 1: The flower has roots bitter and rank grow the things 210 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:43,280 Speaker 1: of the sea. Ye shall know what sap ran thick 211 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 1: in the tree when ye pluck its fruits. Requiem, Requiem, Requiem, 212 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 1: sleep On, sleep on, ac cursed of them who work 213 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:57,200 Speaker 1: our pain, A wild marsh blossom shall blow again from 214 00:14:57,240 --> 00:15:00,240 Speaker 1: a buried root in the slime of men. On the 215 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:07,680 Speaker 1: day of the Great Red Rain, Philadelphia, July nineteen oh one. 216 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 1: That line, on the day of the Great Red Rain. Yeah, anyway, 217 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:18,960 Speaker 1: but do you know what won't sweep away the existing 218 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 1: order in a wash of blood? Our advertisers, they are 219 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:38,920 Speaker 1: the existing order, and we're back. Okay. This next poem 220 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:45,440 Speaker 1: is called Love's Compensation. I went before God and he said, 221 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 1: what fruit of the life I gave? Father? I said, 222 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:52,800 Speaker 1: it is dead, and nothing grows on the grave, where 223 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:56,160 Speaker 1: ofth was the Lord and stern has how not to 224 00:15:56,240 --> 00:16:01,720 Speaker 1: answer me? Shall the fruitless root not burn and be wasted? On? Early? Father? 225 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 1: I said, forgive, for thou knowest what I have done 226 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:09,239 Speaker 1: that another's life may live. Mine turned to a barren stone. 227 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:12,600 Speaker 1: But the Father of life sent fire and burned the 228 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:15,400 Speaker 1: root in the grave. And the pain in my heart 229 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 1: is dire for the thing that I could not save 230 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 1: for the thing. It was laid on me by the 231 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:24,520 Speaker 1: Lord of life, to bring fruit of the ungrown tree 232 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:28,680 Speaker 1: that died for no watering. Another has gone to God, 233 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:31,920 Speaker 1: and his fruit has pleased him well, for he sitteth 234 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 1: high while I plod the dry ways down towards hell. 235 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:41,000 Speaker 1: Though thou knowest, thou knowest, Lord, whose tears made that 236 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 1: fruit's root wet. Yet thou drivest me forth with a sword, 237 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:48,840 Speaker 1: and thy guards by the gate are set. Thou wilt 238 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:51,720 Speaker 1: give me up to the fire, and none shall deliver me. 239 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 1: For I followed my heart's desire, and I labored not 240 00:16:54,920 --> 00:16:57,960 Speaker 1: for thee I labored for him. Thou hast set on 241 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:01,680 Speaker 1: thy right hand, high and fair. Thou lovest him, Lord, 242 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:05,359 Speaker 1: And yet twas my love won him there. But this 243 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:08,320 Speaker 1: is the thing that thou hast been, hath been since 244 00:17:08,359 --> 00:17:12,359 Speaker 1: the world began, that love against self must sin, and 245 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 1: a woman must die for a man. And this is 246 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:18,080 Speaker 1: the thing that shall be, shall be till the whole 247 00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:22,560 Speaker 1: world die. Kiss met. My doom is upon me? Why murmur? 248 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:30,760 Speaker 1: Since I am I Philadelphia, August eighteen ninety eight. This 249 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:33,800 Speaker 1: next poem is called a novel of color, And this 250 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:35,639 Speaker 1: is the one that's probably inside joke, but it's just 251 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:38,560 Speaker 1: kind of neat, and it opens with the parenthetical aside. 252 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:41,480 Speaker 1: The following is a true and particular account of what 253 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:44,440 Speaker 1: happened on the night of December eleventh, eighteen ninety five, 254 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:47,200 Speaker 1: but it is likely to be unintelligible to all save 255 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:50,840 Speaker 1: the chipmunks and the elephant, who, however, will no doubt 256 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:57,400 Speaker 1: recognize themselves. Chapter one. Chipmunks three sat on a tree, 257 00:17:57,680 --> 00:17:59,720 Speaker 1: and they were as green as green could be. They 258 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 1: cracked nuts early, they cracked nuts late, and chirruped and chirrupped, 259 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:06,720 Speaker 1: and ate and ate. Tis a pity of chipmunks without 260 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:09,639 Speaker 1: nuts and a gnawing hunger in their guts. But they 261 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:12,280 Speaker 1: should be wise like you and me, and color themselves 262 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 1: to suit the tree. Achi Achi Achi Achi gay chaps? 263 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:21,480 Speaker 1: Are we we chipmunks three? An elephant, white and sorry, plight, 264 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:25,160 Speaker 1: hungry and dirty and sad. But night straggled one day 265 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:29,640 Speaker 1: on the nutting ground, lo chattered the chipmunks Our chances found. 266 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:33,439 Speaker 1: Behold the beast's color were he as we? Green and 267 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:36,680 Speaker 1: sleek and nut full were he. But the beast is big, 268 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:39,560 Speaker 1: and the beast is white, and his skin full of emptiness, 269 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:44,320 Speaker 1: serves him right, achi achi achi achi, Let us sit 270 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:50,040 Speaker 1: on him, sit on him. Chipmunks three, Chapter two. Three 271 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:53,359 Speaker 1: chipmunks green right gay were seen to leap on the 272 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:56,840 Speaker 1: beast his brows between. They munched at his ears and 273 00:18:56,920 --> 00:19:00,920 Speaker 1: chiffeted his chin, and satin sat and satin on him. 274 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:03,880 Speaker 1: Not a single available spot of hide where a well 275 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:07,280 Speaker 1: sleeked chipmunk could sit with pride, but was chipped and 276 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:10,960 Speaker 1: chipped and chip chipmunked till aught. But an elephant must 277 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 1: have flunked. Achi Achi achi achi, What a ride we're having? 278 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 1: We chipmunks three, Chapter three burn chapter four? What was it? Blue? 279 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 1: A wu a woo? Three green chipmunks have all turned blue. 280 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:35,960 Speaker 1: The elephant smiles a peaceful smile and lifts off a 281 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 1: tree trunk sends haste or guile. Seize him, seize him. 282 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:44,240 Speaker 1: He's stealing our tree. We are undone. Undone, shrieked the chipmunks. Three. 283 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:48,199 Speaker 1: The elephant calmly upraised his trunk and said, did I 284 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:52,639 Speaker 1: hear a green chipmunk? Achi a chi a chi a 285 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:59,240 Speaker 1: chu chippy? You're blue? So are you? So are you? Philadelphia, 286 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:05,159 Speaker 1: December eighth, teen ninety five. And this next poem I 287 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:09,360 Speaker 1: actually I think first heard about because the person who 288 00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:11,760 Speaker 1: did our theme music for cool people who did cool 289 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:17,560 Speaker 1: stuff is a amazing songwriter and cellist named Unwoman, and 290 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:21,800 Speaker 1: she at one point set this poem to music. And 291 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:24,680 Speaker 1: this poem is called written in red. It's gonna be 292 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:27,199 Speaker 1: really interesting to not try and read it in the 293 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:31,479 Speaker 1: same cadence as the song. This is dedicated to our 294 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:35,840 Speaker 1: living dead in Mexico's struggle. This was about the Mexican Revolution. 295 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 1: Written and read. Their protest stands for the gods of 296 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:44,399 Speaker 1: the world to see. On the dooming wall. Their bodyless 297 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:48,320 Speaker 1: hands have blazondo farsan and flaring brands I loom. The 298 00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:51,960 Speaker 1: message sees the lands, open the prisons and make men free. 299 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:57,000 Speaker 1: Flame out the living words of the dead, written in red. 300 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:01,800 Speaker 1: Gods of the world, their mouths are your guns have spoken, 301 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:05,080 Speaker 1: and they are dust. But the shrouded living, whose hearts 302 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:09,160 Speaker 1: were numb, have felt the beat of awakening drum within them, 303 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:13,480 Speaker 1: sounding the dead man's tongue calling smite off. The ancient 304 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:18,119 Speaker 1: rust have beheld, resurrects it the word of the dead 305 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:24,359 Speaker 1: written and read, bear it aloft a roaring flame skyward 306 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:27,840 Speaker 1: aloft where all may see slaves of the world are 307 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:32,560 Speaker 1: caused the same. One is the immemorial shame, one is 308 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:36,520 Speaker 1: the struggle, and in one name manhood, we battle to 309 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:40,960 Speaker 1: set men free. Uncurse us the land Burn the Words 310 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:45,840 Speaker 1: of the Dead written and read. I think this was 311 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:50,000 Speaker 1: vulturing into Claire's last poem. Then she wrote, Uncurse us 312 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:53,359 Speaker 1: the land Burn the Words of the Dead. Yeah, I 313 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:55,560 Speaker 1: don't know. I don't have them blot specifically to say 314 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:57,920 Speaker 1: about the poetry. Besides, I like that she has a 315 00:21:57,960 --> 00:21:59,959 Speaker 1: lot of different stuff. I actually really like the Chipmunk 316 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:03,200 Speaker 1: poem might be my favorite poem of it. I don't 317 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:05,680 Speaker 1: know the fuck it's about, but it's really fun to read, 318 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:08,760 Speaker 1: and I would read a kid's book of it anyway. 319 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:12,959 Speaker 1: Vaguely speaking of Haymarket and may Day, which I was 320 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:14,879 Speaker 1: a while ago, because some of these poems are about that. 321 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:18,800 Speaker 1: We have some exciting stuff happening on book club for you. 322 00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:21,399 Speaker 1: We're going to do an experiment, because this is always 323 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 1: the book club where we do the reading for you, 324 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:26,800 Speaker 1: but we're going to try a thing where we listen 325 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:29,080 Speaker 1: to what you have to say about some stuff. We 326 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:31,000 Speaker 1: have some reading that I'm not going to do for 327 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:33,439 Speaker 1: you ahead of time that you have to go and 328 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:37,719 Speaker 1: read yourself these stories. I believe in you. I trust you. 329 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:42,240 Speaker 1: I believe in your capacity to read two short stories 330 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:46,440 Speaker 1: so that when we talk about it in early May, 331 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:50,240 Speaker 1: we'll be able to include your words. I want you 332 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:53,280 Speaker 1: to read the stories. They're both by Ursula k Legwin. 333 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:58,480 Speaker 1: One is very very short. It's called the Ones who 334 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:02,600 Speaker 1: Walked Away from om A Loss ome E La s 335 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:06,440 Speaker 1: and the other story is called The Day Before the Revolution, 336 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:09,520 Speaker 1: both by Ursula kay Legwin. You can find them both online. 337 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:13,400 Speaker 1: I believe in you, and then we're going to talk 338 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:15,320 Speaker 1: about them. I'm going to talk with some other people 339 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:20,360 Speaker 1: about these stories, but we're also going to include your words. 340 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:22,359 Speaker 1: And I think the way that we're going to do this, 341 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:24,440 Speaker 1: I will update you if this is not the way 342 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:26,280 Speaker 1: we're doing it is that I'm going to make a 343 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:29,480 Speaker 1: post on the it could Happen here Reddit. I never 344 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:32,159 Speaker 1: use Reddit, That's not true. I lurk on Reddit, not 345 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:34,639 Speaker 1: the podcast reddits. I can't bring myself to do that, 346 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:37,760 Speaker 1: but I do like Reddit. But I'm going to post 347 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:40,639 Speaker 1: on that it could happen here Reddit and people can 348 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:43,440 Speaker 1: add their comments about those stories there and we'll kind 349 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:46,720 Speaker 1: of curate them and include them in our discussion. We'll 350 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:50,680 Speaker 1: make it a good and proper book club with your help. 351 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:55,800 Speaker 1: I believe in you anyway. I'm Margaret Kiljoy. You can 352 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:59,440 Speaker 1: find me on the Internet at Margaret kildoy and on 353 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 1: Blue Sky and Instagram in particular, as well as my 354 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:06,280 Speaker 1: substack where I write about things every week. And I'll 355 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:08,359 Speaker 1: find you on the Internet. I don't know how m 356 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:10,640 Speaker 1: I'll be able to find you, but maybe I am 357 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 1: paying attention to your web traffic. I'll find you reading 358 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:16,200 Speaker 1: The Ones who Walked Away from Omelas and the Day 359 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:19,880 Speaker 1: Before the Revolution by Ursula k Legwin, for example, on 360 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:24,000 Speaker 1: the Anarchist Library. There's a very large library on the 361 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,880 Speaker 1: Internet called the Anarchist Library that has a lot of texts, 362 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:30,480 Speaker 1: and I believe it includes those texts. All right, take 363 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:34,520 Speaker 1: care of each other, Fuck Ice, free Palestine, Up the punks. 364 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 1: I never say up the punks anymore. How Come people 365 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:38,840 Speaker 1: don't say up the punks? I guess because we moved 366 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:42,879 Speaker 1: beyond subculture. But I still believe we shout up the punks. 367 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:49,919 Speaker 1: It could happen here as a production of cool Zone Media. 368 00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:52,760 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from cool Zone Media, visit our website 369 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:55,040 Speaker 1: cool zonemedia dot com, or check us out on the 370 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:58,680 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts, 371 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:01,639 Speaker 1: you can find sources. It could happen here, Updated monthly 372 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:05,320 Speaker 1: at coolzonemedia dot com slash sources. Thanks for listening.