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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Saber production of iHeartRadio, I'm any.

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Speaker 2: Reader, and I'm mourned Vogel Bomb, And today we have

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Speaker 2: an episode for you that's a little something different because okay,

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Speaker 2: y'all know that we love food poetry, you know, poems

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Speaker 2: about food, and so we wanted to do a little

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Speaker 2: dramatic reading for you, you know, just just a little

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Speaker 2: treat with a little bit of discussion afterwards. And we're

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Speaker 2: hoping to turn this into a little bit of a

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Speaker 2: of a of a series over time.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and this has been a long time coming. I

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Speaker 1: think like a year ago.

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Speaker 2: Oh more than that. Yeah, this has been on our.

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Speaker 1: Radar, yes, because we do run into food poetry on

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Speaker 1: the show and we love it so obviously, listeners, if

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Speaker 1: there is an avenue you think we should go down,

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Speaker 1: let us know.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it helps tremendously if the poem in question

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Speaker 2: is in the public domain.

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Speaker 3: Definitely, very much.

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Speaker 2: We enjoyed not getting sued.

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Speaker 3: That is another thing we enjoy greatly. It's the goal

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Speaker 3: of mine, is that, yes, totally. Oh but okay, for this.

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Speaker 2: First one, I brought to the table a poem by

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Speaker 2: Robert Frost called After apple Picking, and we are a

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Speaker 2: little late in the year for apple harvesting here in

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Speaker 2: the Northern Hemisphere, but the poem has a very like

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Speaker 2: late fall kind of vibe, so I thought I thought

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Speaker 2: now would be a nice time to share it. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: is this one that you're familiar with, Annie.

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Speaker 3: No, I am not. This was the first i'd read it.

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Speaker 3: So excellent.

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Speaker 2: Oh a great, okay, all right? So uh so, yeah,

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Speaker 2: let's let's do the poem. This is after apple Picking

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Speaker 2: by Robert Frost. My long two pointed ladders sticking through

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Speaker 2: a tree toward heaven still, and there's a barrel that

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Speaker 2: I didn't fill beside it, and there may be two

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Speaker 2: or three apples I didn't pick upon some bough. But

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Speaker 2: I am done with apple picking.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: Essence of winter sleep is on the night, the scent

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Speaker 2: of apples.

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Speaker 3: I am drowsing off.

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Speaker 2: I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight I got

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Speaker 2: from looking through a pane of glass. I skimmed this

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Speaker 2: morning from the drinking trough and held against the world

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Speaker 2: of hoary grass.

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Speaker 3: It melted, and.

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Speaker 2: I let it fall and break. But I was well

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Speaker 2: upon my way to sleep before it fell, and I

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Speaker 2: could tell what form my dreaming was about to take

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Speaker 2: Magnified apples appear and disappear, stem end and blossom end,

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Speaker 2: and every fleck of russet showing clear. My instep arc

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Speaker 2: not only keeps the ache, it keeps the pressure of

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Speaker 2: a ladder round. I feel the ladder sways, the bough's bend,

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Speaker 2: and I keep hearing from the cellar bin the rumbling

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Speaker 2: sound of load on load of apples coming in. For

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Speaker 2: I have had too much of apple picking. I am

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Speaker 2: overtired of the great harvest. I myself desired. There were

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Speaker 2: ten thousand thousand fruit to touch, cherish in hand, lift down,

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Speaker 2: and not let fall. For all that struck the earth,

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Speaker 2: no matter, if not bruised or spiked with stubble, went

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Speaker 2: surely to the cider apple heap as of no worth.

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Speaker 2: One can see what will trouble the sleep of mine,

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Speaker 2: whatever sleep it is. Were he not gone, the woodchuck

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Speaker 2: could say whether it's like his long sleep as I

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Speaker 2: describe it's coming on, or just some human sleep. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: That again is the poem after apple Picking by Robert Frost,

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Speaker 2: from his collection called of Boston. This was Frost's second collection,

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Speaker 2: published in nineteen fourteen. Frost himself was born in eighteen

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Speaker 2: seventy four on the West Coast, and his family moved

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Speaker 2: back east after his father died when he was a

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Speaker 2: kid to be closer to extended relatives. The New England

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Speaker 2: landscape and people's are a lot of what he wound

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Speaker 2: up writing about, and he was a sort of overnight

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Speaker 2: success for whom it took twenty years to catch a

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Speaker 2: break like North of Boston was his first big book,

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Speaker 2: and he was forty years old with like a lot

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Speaker 2: of rejections under his belt when that happened. A lot

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Speaker 2: of his work similar to this piece does feel like

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Speaker 2: something between homie and dream like and features these really

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Speaker 2: distinct personalities. One of my favorite things about this poem

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Speaker 2: is like the mood that I get from them, which

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Speaker 2: I love, which is like weary and slightly crabby and

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Speaker 2: completely satisfied.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, And it's just so it puts you

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Speaker 1: in a place in a time. The language of it

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Speaker 1: the rhyme scheme where the rhymes come where you might

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah. It's it's not like a like a

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Speaker 2: traditional strict verse but but but it's still like creates

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Speaker 3: It's really pretty m h and it is that it

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Speaker 3: almost feels like the falling of leaves.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, like it has that sensation of, oh,

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Speaker 1: this one's falling more quickly, this rhyme is falling more

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Speaker 1: quickly than this one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, or like like yeah, like leaves or like a

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Speaker 2: snowfall coming down. Yeah. And and that just kind of

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Speaker 2: icy pause of breath that you get, yeah during that

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Speaker 2: chill type of season. Mm hmm, yeah. Yeah. I I

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Speaker 2: don't want to I don't want to like belabor this piece.

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Speaker 2: You know we were talking about when we were talking

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Speaker 2: about doing this this mini series, like you know, how

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Speaker 2: to treat it because you know, we've done those food

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Speaker 2: fairy tales where it's like a very highly produced thing

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Speaker 2: and like a group effort, and we do a lot

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Speaker 2: of discussion about the author and the piece itself, like

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Speaker 2: the history of the piece. But but I think that

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Speaker 2: this poem pretty much speaks for itself. I mean, you

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Speaker 2: could certainly argue with our interpretation of it. I like,

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Speaker 2: like Robert Frost was this really smart, really complicated dude.

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Speaker 2: He had this this history in academics and literary traditions

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Speaker 2: and the classics, though he never got a degree, but

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Speaker 2: he used that to bring these like down to earth

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Speaker 2: scenes to life. But he was kind of bad at

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Speaker 2: being down to earth and so like like as a person.

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Speaker 3: So it's really.

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Speaker 2: Hard to pick out from his verse, like what is

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Speaker 2: straightforward and what's commentary, how that commentary is skewing, like

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Speaker 2: how he meant for it to be skewed, versus how

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Speaker 2: you the reader are going to pick that up. I'm

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Speaker 2: into poetry, so I find that process really delightful.

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Speaker 3: But I do too. I love poetry and also Lauren,

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Speaker 3: excellent job.

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Speaker 2: Oh very thank you. This is this is one of

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Speaker 2: my favorite poems. I just I feel it makes me

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Speaker 3: Anyway.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're ostensibly a food show. You can see our

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Speaker 2: episodes on like Apples and Cider an apple pie, I

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Speaker 2: guess for more about this sort of vibe.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, and again, listeners, please let us know if

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Speaker 1: you have a poem in mind or a rabbit hole

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Speaker 1: for us to look down. Yes, segments again, preferably public domain.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to be sued.

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Speaker 1: All love that, but yeah, we would love to hear

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Speaker 1: from you if you've got a favorite food poem.

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Speaker 3: Even if we can't read it on air, we would

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Speaker 3: love to still read.

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Speaker 2: It absolutely, Oh yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yes, So please let us know. You can email us

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