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A weekly pre-sleep, post-thought audio play investigating the nature of latent boredom and the strip-mining of emotional bereavement.
Semi is written & performed by Mark Simpson, Garth Simmons and Jim-John Harkness, and is produced by Stephen Landerhour for BBC Sounds.
Semi is written & performed by Mark Simpson, Garth Simmons and Jim-John Harkness, and is produced by Stephen Landerhour for BBC Sounds.
Update frequency:
monthly
Average audio length:
33 minutes
English
United States
150 episodes
since Jan. 7, 2019
episodic
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You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it--it's theonly way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk. But on what?Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk. And if sometimes, on the steps o…
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They sit at the round table and do not look at one another.The fire is warm but it does not help.
Someone laughs too loudly.Someone else watches the laugh.
In the morning there was trust.By night it is a thin thing,like frost on the grass outside the castle.
They speak of loyalty as if it were soli…
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The smoke from a pipe
Frozen solid by sunshine;
a different soap in the bathroom
and the scent of wintering apples.
The house stands like a single word
on an empty page
with its long flat views and memories
of waves breaking on the hills.
Never at television,
Just the crooning happy faced radio
…
They set it yesterday. I watched them pourThe wobbling liquid into its glass mould,Translucent, promising: The recipe called forPatience, and a larder running cold.
But jellies fail. Mine's still a slop of red,Refusing to cohere, to find its form.The other's jelly trembles, perfectly deadTo doubt. …
Pepper, I know you're going to be upset'Cause I was always your little girlBut you should know by now, I'm not a babyYou always taught me right from wrongI need your help, daddy, please be strongI may be young at heart, but I know what I'm sayingThe one you warned me all aboutThe one you said I cou…
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