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Honest Chaos

by Mark Bonica

A poetry, fiction, and spoken word podcast. Completely irregular. Web site: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/

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  1. My People

    My people married their first cousins and passed on crooked backs and congenital deafness - my people scraped desert island hills into terraces and pleaded with the earth - my people gathered the rain in cisterns hidden beneath their huts. There was never enough, and poverty only begets beauty…

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  2. The First Day of Spring

    Spoken word. See text at https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-first-day-of-spring.html

  3. Friend from Childhood's Last Days

    Friend from Childhood's Last Days Would I recognize you all these years later friend from childhood's last days? From bottomless time playing Atari and banana seat bicycles riding over cracked sidewalks late into summer nights? How have you aged, with a dad-bod belly and a receding hairline? or…

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  4. Leonardo's First Flight

    Spoken word. Text here: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2023/01/leonardos-first-flight.html

  5. the residents

    Spoken word. More at https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-residents.html

  6. unleashed

    Spoken word. Words here: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/11/unleashed.html

  7. When it was not

    Spoken word. https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/11/when-it-was-not.html

  8. how it begins, again

    Text at https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/06/how-it-begins-again.html

  9. Us who are lucky

    Spoken word piece about running out of time. see written piece here: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/05/us-who-are-lucky.html

  10. I am only a fool

    Spoken word piece - some days you can't be. words: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/04/i-am-only-fool.html

  11. gluttony

    A spoken word piece about gluttony, one of the seven deadly sins Written here: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/03/gluttony.html

  12. banishment

    A spoken word piece about Envy, the worst of the 7 deadly sins written: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/03/banishment.html

  13. The Path Between Worlds

    A spoken word piece about the thinness between reality and the mystical More at: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-path-between-worlds.html

  14. The Cat is Awake

    Spoken word piece about the damn cat and his morning howling. Text here: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-cat-is-awake.html

  15. Office of Days

    a spoken word piece text at https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/02/office-of-days.html

  16. Collective Action

    A spoken word piece about winter. For text, see https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/01/collective-action.html

  17. Youth

    A spoken word piece about the frustrations of being young and not knowing better. See https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/01/youth.html

  18. Empty Classroom

    At the end of a semester, saying goodbye. The class vs. the students. Text: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2021/05/empty-classroom.html

  19. the game

    text here: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-game.html

  20. Native Sounds

    Text: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2012/08/45365-driving-to-work.html

  21. Driving to Work

    Text: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2012/08/45365-driving-to-work.html

  22. Cutting

    Text: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2012/09/50365.html

  23. 4 in the Morning

    text: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2012/09/57365-4-in-morning.html

  24. Heaven on Earth

    text: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2012/05/16365-heaven-on-earth.html

  25. Empty Space

    Text: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2012/09/53365.html

  26. Running on Old Trails

    text: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2012/09/52365-running-on-old-trails.html

  27. The Hustle

    Text: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2009/01/doing-hustle.html

  28. Bargaining with the Devil

    what the devil wants https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2021/05/bargaining-with-devil.html

  29. those small bones

    Dancing and being young - so delicate.

  30. this thing

    the one thing that allows us to see each other as human

  31. A meditation by a tree upon the noble truth that the root of all suffering is desire

    A meditation on letting go of desire. https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2021/03/a-meditation-by-tree-upon-noble-truth.html

  32. sailing in company

    Friendship is a choice.

  33. cancer killed my mother

    Fifty and not dead.

  34. The Many Days

    So many perfect days.

  35. Morning Commute

    Do you see me looking at you looking at me?

  36. George

    Because what else would you call your giraffe?

  37. On This Sort of Day

    Coffee makes everything better.

  38. Moving Day

    Reflections on leaving an old home.

  39. A Man's Song

    Hearing things in the woods.

  40. Cooking for My Daughter

    A poem about adjusting to having an adult child. https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2019/07/cooking-for-my-daughter.html

  41. Reading Aristotle's Politics

    When we read, we bridge time and mind. https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2019/03/reading-aristotles-politics.html

  42. Gorgon

    Garden hose gorgon

  43. Illusions be gone

    Spoken word poetry.

  44. The Man, Rorschach

    spoken word poem

  45. Equinox

    A poem about the beginning of the end.

  46. When This Close to Heaven

    Try not to fly to close to the sun.

  47. Lilith and Adam

    In some traditions, Lilith was actually the first woman, and rejected by Adam when she would not submit to him. Hence the two versions of the creation of humans in Genesis. Lilith was Adam's equal and created at the same time, Eve was created from Adam.

  48. Summer Solstice

    The beginning of summer and what it means

  49. The Ledger

    The ledger of gifts

  50. Those Of Us Who Set Out

    Things don't work out as planned.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

A poetry, fiction, and spoken word podcast. Completely irregular. Web site: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/

HOSTED BY

Mark Bonica

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