The Winners and Losers Radio Program: Living in the Layers

 

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The Winners and Losers Radio Program: Living in the Layers

 

Raise One for the Mitt (Romney) Retirement Speech

 

 

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Hosts: John Case, Karen Valentine

Stanley Kunitz:

I have walked through many lives, some of them my own,
 and I am not who I was,
 though some principle of being
 abides, from which I struggle
 not to stray.
 When I look behind,
 as I am compelled to look
 before I can gather strength
 to proceed on my journey,
 I see the milestones dwindling
 toward the horizon
 and the slow fires trailing
 from the abandoned camp-sites,
 over which scavenger angels
 wheel on heavy wings.
 Oh, I have made myself a tribe
 out of my true affections,
 and my tribe is scattered!
 How shall the heart be reconciled
 to its feast of losses?
 In a rising wind
 the manic dust of my friends,
 those who fell along the way,
 bitterly stings my face.
 Yet I turn, I turn,
 exulting somewhat,
 with my will intact to go
 wherever I need to go,
 and every stone on the road
 precious to me.
 In my darkest night,
 when the moon was covered
 and I roamed through wreckage,
 a nimbus-clouded voice
 directed me:
 “Live in the layers,
 not on the litter.”
 Though I lack the art
 to decipher it,
 no doubt the next chapter
 in my book of transformations
 is already written.
 I am not done with my changes.

This Episode Recorded September 15, 2023 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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