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The Last Stop Cafe: ELDFIBAM!

 
Enlighten Radio Presents
The Last Stop Cafe: ELDFIBAM!
The Nov 6 Show
Forget it. It's Already Gone
 
 
Broadcast Thrusdays 10 AM, unless we are asleep, or dead.
Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
What does it mean?: Million Dollar Reward For Who Gets It Right. Hint: '69 SDS'
This Episode Recorded Nov. 6 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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The Last Stop Cafe: Halloween 202555555

 
Enlighten Radio Presents
The Last Stop Cafe: Halloween 202555555
Commanders Aint Commanding Much
 
 
Broadcast LIVE Fridays, 7:30 AM Eastern on player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
Applications for suicide bomber jobs seem to be falling.....
This Episode Recorded Halloween 2025, or thereabouts at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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The Poetry Show: Dawn

 
 
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Night was her only Love. She keeps its mystery and its stars, for herself, all the long day.
 
 
Poetry on the theme of Aubade: Song to Dawn. Joy Harjo, Elsa Gitlow, Helen Hunt Jackson, Paul Dunbar.
Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded November 12, 2024
Aubade (1937)
by William Empson
 
Hours before dawn we were woken by the quake.My house was on a cliff. The thing could takeBookloads off shelves, break bottles in a row.Then the long pause and then the bigger shake.It seemed the best thing to be up and go.
And far too large for my feet to step by.I hoped that various buildings were brought low.The heart of standing is you cannot fly.
It seemed quite safe till she got up and dressed.The guarded tourist makes the guide the test.Then I said The Garden? Laughing she said No.Taxi for her and for me healthy rest.It seemed the best thing to be up and go.
The language problem but you have to try.Some solid ground for lying could she show?The heart of standing is you cannot fly.
None of these deaths were her point at all.The thing was that being woken he would bawlAnd finding her not in earshot he would know.I tried saying Half an Hour to pay this call.It seemed the best thing to be up and go.
I slept, and blank as that I would yet lie.Till you have seen what a threat holds below,The heart of standing is you cannot fly.
Tell me again about Europe and her pains,Who’s tortured by the drought, who by the rains.Glut me with floods where only the swine can rowWho cuts his throat and let him count his gains.It seemed the best thing to be up and go.
A bedshift flight to a Far Eastern sky.Only the same war on a stronger toe.The heart of standing is you cannot fly.
Tell me more quickly what I lost by this,Or tell me with less drama what they missWho call no die for a god for a throw,Who says after two aliens had one kissIt seemed the best thing to be up and go.
But as to risings, I can tell you why.It is on contradiction that they grow.It seemed the best thing to be up and go.Up was the heartening and the strong reply.The heart of standing is we cannot fly.
 
 
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The Poetry Show: Ghosts

 
 
Enlighten Radio Presents
Escaping the Marble Forest
 
 
You have seen them. The ones you left behind. The one thats missing. The griefs that keep hanging around. A comfort. A fate. The marble forest: make them be stone. Elizabeth Jennings, Wilfred Owen, Christopher Kennedy, Kiki Petrosina, Gregory Orr, Sylvia Plath, Claribel Allegria, Eric Pankey
Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded 10/29/2025
Ghost in the Land of Skeletons
by Christopher Kennedy
 
For Russell Edson
If not for flesh's pretty paint, we're just a bunch of skeletons, working hard to deny the fact of bones. Teeth remind me that we die. That's why I never smile, except when looking at a picture of a ghost, captured by a camera lens, in a book about the paranormal. When someone takes a picture of a spirit, it gives me hope. I admire the ones who refuse to go away. Lovers scorned and criminals burned. I love the dead little girl who plays in her yard, a spectral game of hide and seek. It's the fact they don't know they're dead that appeals to me most. Like a man once said to me, Do you ever feel like you're a ghost? Sure, I answered, every day. He laughed at that and disappeared. All I could think was he beat me to it.
 
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