Description
Summer in the city: Hazy freneticism, long evenings in half light, sticking your
arm out your office window, rolling up your pant legs and dipping your feet in a
fountain, eating fries at the public pool, biking through the pine forests for
the last unfound spot of dappled sunlight by the lake. Sure, there’s a certain
amount of envy built into watching your friends leave the dusty, hot grips of
the city for calmer, greener, beachier locations, but Summer in the city is also
an exercise in in super-saturation (as the poet Monica Youn writes), in monotony
with a different, louder beat.
* As ever, Something Like's jingle comes courtesy of the wonderful Roger 3000
* I read First Blues by Saundra Rose Maley, from Disappearing Act, 2015 and A
Parking Lot in West Houston, by Monika Youn from Barter, 2003
* The sounds behind my voice today were recorded from my window, which
overloo...
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