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EPISODE · Feb 11, 2025 · 1H 31M

Cloud Watching in the Inferno by Westley Heine

from Social Yet Distanced: A View with an Emotionalorphan and Friends · host Jack Varnell

Cloud Watching in the Inferno by Westley HeineWestley Heine is the author of Busking Blues: Recollections of a Chicago Street Musician and Squatter through Roadside Press (2022), a short story collection 12 Chicago Cabbies (2021), and volume of poetry The Trail of Quetzalcoatl (2016). He has featured twice at the Green Mill Poetry Slam in Uptown Chicago and is the new host of the poetry open mic at The Gallery Cabaret in Bucktown every 4th Saturday. Most recently#Roadside Press has released his new poetry collection entitled Street Corner Spirits, audio excerpts of which are now available on most streaming services under the same title.He’s been a taxi dispatcher, a roadie, a deliveryman, a squatter, a street musician, a grocery clerk, a chambermaid, a novelist, a painter, a metal head, a Boy Scout, an insurance investigator, a jailbird, a farmhand, sold tickets to the symphony, sold plasma, been unemployed, and been a filmmaker. Life is always creating new characters inside him, but always a writer. He’s rambled from Wisconsin, to Chicago, Europe, Texas, Mexico, California, and everywhere in between. Let in the light. Let out the fire. Instagram: @westleyheineCloud Watching in the Inferno by Westley Heine is the next in his next work, links attached... and thats why we are here...Cloud Watching in the Inferno is a collection gathering the best pieces by author Westley Heine written between 2022 and 2024.The poems and short stories are set in the past and the future using surreal imagery and dark humor to capture the contemporary existential angst of life in the 2020s. Full of colorful hard-nosed characters, themes include#heartbreak,#AI, sex, death,#America, insecurity,#poverty,#religion, ecological collapse, disease,#alcoholism, madness, and space travel.NOTE:All the pretty guitar that chimes in is his as well...Cloud Watching in the Infernohttps://bit.ly/CloudWatchInfernoBusking Blues: Recollections of a Chicago Street Musician and Squatter by Westley Heine is available athttps://bit.ly/Busking_BluesStreet Corner Spirits by Westley Heine is available athttps://bit.ly/streetcornerspiritsLIKE - SUB- COMMENT - SHAREbit.ly/SyDCafeCommunitybit.ly/SocialYetDistancedPodcast bit.ly/SydVidYouTubeAs always, health is maintained by BLOOM and Holistic Caring-https://holisticcaring.com/ref/Jack/ made with:https://bit.ly/HYPER-SyD#podcast,#video,#art,#books,#literature,#poetry,#poets,#socialyetdistanced,#poetry,#poem,#poet,#HOPE,#DANGEROUS,#CONFESSIONAL,#POEMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqbOvmZq0uI&t=10s

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