822: Cricket Song
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Today\\u2019s poem is Cricket Song by George Kalogeris. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes\\u2026 \\u201cAt times, no words exist to capture our rapid, forward-marching world. Life outpaces language. It is then we attempt to create fresh language or rinse cycle words until we have a new purchase on old concepts. For example, for about a decade, I\\u2019ve been trying to formulate a word that explains the phenomenon of contagious yawning. It\\u2019s a thing and I\\u2019m haunted by this lack in our speech. It is what leads me to sing.\\u201d Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp
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