EPISODE · Oct 16, 2025 · 2 MIN
Don’t Feed the Animals: Spoken Word Poetry on Survival and Spectatorship
from Unspoken · host Kate
In Don’t Feed the Animals, poet and nurse practitioner Kate Earley delivers a haunting spoken-word piece about empathy, control, and what it means to be “safe enough to love.”Through the metaphor of the zoo, this performance explores how care can turn to captivity — how survival, hunger, and gentleness are reshaped for the comfort of those watching.Part elegy, part indictment, Don’t Feed the Animals asks what happens to the wild parts of us when they’re cleaned up for display.It’s a quiet roar — measured, aching, and unflinchingly human. Copyright ©2025 Kate Earley Music: September Song by Agnes ObelWritten: October 15, 2025
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In Don’t Feed the Animals, poet and nurse practitioner Kate Earley delivers a haunting spoken-word piece about empathy, control, and what it means to be “safe enough to love.”Through the metaphor of the zoo, this performance explores how care can turn to captivity — how survival, hunger, and gentleness are reshaped for the comfort of those watching.Part elegy, part indictment, Don’t Feed the Animals asks what happens to the wild parts of us when they’re cleaned up for display.It’s a quiet roar — measured, aching, and unflinchingly human. Copyright ©2025 Kate Earley Music: September Song by Agnes ObelWritten: October 15, 2025
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