840: Agoraphobia
Today\u2019s poem is Agoraphobia by Natasha Saj\xe9. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest host Jason Schneiderman writes\u2026 \u201cI didn\u2019t learn to drive until I was twenty-seven. It\u2019s not because I\u2019m a New Yorker\u2014I finished High School in Maryland, and it\u2019s not because I had a principled opposition to fossil fuels, though I wish I could say it was. It\u2019s because I was in a car accident when I was seventeen. I didn\u2019t learn to drive not because I was afraid of driving, but because I was afraid of what could go wrong if I drove. It took me another ten years to face my fears. Finally, like the subjects of today\u2019s poem, I realized I was living a smaller life because I was afraid.\u201d Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp