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NYC poet Robert Weber writes about the impacts of a highly medicated illness on relations with others.
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NYC poet Robert Weber writes about the impacts of a highly medicated illness on relations with others.
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Transcript
The Morning
By Robert J. Weber ?2005
I cannot replace this loss with another body.
The void is specific and the swirling spiral of ache is replete in the want of that ones company, caress, words, energy.
Those things are removed,
willfully, with intent.
"I remove myself from him", he said,
What was removed is replaced by curious suspicion and
elaborate tales told to shore the weight of guilt?
shame?
A wide ocean of fear and doubt awaits.
There seems to be a deep inoperable need
to keep some strange weighty thing alive,
the many hidden stories,
hell bent on the survival of perception.
Elaborate tales told to others.
keep the image lofty,
aloof,
alienated from the rich stabilizing effects of the earth.
Feet, root in the ground, eyes awake, be wide open.
I comport, entertain and dialogue
with a dizzying array of medica...
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Suggested host intro: poet Robert Weber is a dancer and artist in New York City. The following poem "The Morning" is read and produced by his sister and PRX producer, Shana Weber.
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