Meditations On Permafrost
The past doesn't decay, it keeps. Under the record: Cato before the last speech, Endymion still asleep, the innocent's testimony before the flood. I write the parts nobody writes down. Poems, monologues, and a living room where they're read aloud.
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Live with Meditations On Permafrost (opens the original)
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Post-Mastication (opens the original)
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Hold Music (opens the original)
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Author’s Note: This was written after spending an hour of my life on hold to the customer service team of a bank that had their phone script written by Samuel Beckett and edited by Franz Kafka. With phone training done by Rust Cohle from Series 1 True Detective. And for the record (just in case you think I’ve gone full trenchcoat wearing Gauloises smoking Nihilist / Long Dark Night of the iPhone 18 ) I think the Hold Music is always what you make of it and art one of the ways we can find true pu
Poetry Reading - Ozymandias + She Walks In Beauty - Shelley & Byron (opens the original)
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Vespers: The Murder of Thomas Becket (opens the original)
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Good evening, and I love history. We thought we’d collaborate to bring a dramatic piece of English history to life, the murder of Thomas Becket. Peter tells the story of Thomas Becket’s life, rise and then death and I attempt to do something similar in a monolouge. Content Warning: violence & some swearing. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!M21R!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fp
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