The Unrulies feel their way through the twists and turns of the near miss. Similar to the close call, or is it? You might say life is a sequence of near misses, as we dodge one outcome and choose another. Friends and partners often chortle about the near miss that brought them together, or kept them together. Was it fate? An alarm that didn’t go off? A wrong turn? But then there are the moments we’d like to forget, the consequences seem too scary or too risky or...we shudder to think! The near miss leaves us celebrating our lives and maybe a little wistful. Tragedy can lurk in the corners. Take a deep breath. We can only go forward!
SONG 1: Almost Blew My Face Off (composed and sung by jvm)
POEM 1: “If Only” by Jack Cooper. First published in Spectrum 2. Anthology edited by Don Kingfisher Campbell, 2016
Author of Across My Silence, 2007, World Audience, Inc.
PROSE READING: “Near Misses,” a story by Lynn C. Miller. Her latest book is the collection The Lost Archive (April, 2023, U of Wisconsin Press). https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/6155.htm www.lynncmiller.com
BREAK MUSIC: "Waking up in a Baobab" by jvm
POEM 2: “Outside the Frame” by Susan Aizenberg from her new collection, A Walk With Frank O’Hara and Other Poems, in press from the University of New Mexico Press. susanaizenberg.wordpress.com
SONG 2: "Horseshoes, Hand Grenades & Love" (composed and sung by jvm)
Episode artwork by Lynda Miller
Show theme and Incidental music by John V. Modaff, BMI
Recorded in Albuquerque, NM and Morehead, KY.
Produced at The Creek Studio, Morehead.
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