44. Gone And Still Here

The Story Must Be Told

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Arts

4.8 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The songs I hear on the radio talk to me, and what they say no one should hear. Everything talks. The city breathes and sighs, and the fields caw and cry. Every creature makes sound, but not all are heard. Sometimes, a voice is lost, muffled, suffocated. Silence is proof of immeasurable loss. Invocation Psalm: “A Father’s Deception” Liturgical Reading: “Gone and Still Here” Concluding Prayer Poke your fingers into your ears and wiggle wiggle till you can’t hear no more. Scritch scritch! Seeyasweets Tuesday, hmm.

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0:00.0	Brothers and Sisters,
0:04.0	Brothers and Sisters, a name came to me last night while I was studying the story.
0:28.6	At first the name was whispered quietly, like a baby bird rasping with labored breath before its mother sends him to gravitational perdition.
0:44.1	Then the name was shouted. It was screamed at me. I knew. Oh, story I knew, what had to be done. And dear congregation, sweet brothers and sisters,
0:58.5	the name whispered was one of your very own. It is one among you. The name is Curtis Pomperdal.
1:16.9	Curtis approached me. Curtis, come to this altar and receive what you deserve. The story must be told. This story must be told. Curtis, you remind me of St. Wandering Gorby.
1:35.2	Oh, yes, you do.
1:37.2	Wandering Gorby!
1:39.3	Was a coward of a man.
1:41.7	Face knotted.
1:43.8	Eyes bulging, teeth rotting, hair stinking. The town cast him out.
1:51.6	Go, Gorby! They screamed, not sanely. And he left, and his name was not spoken.
2:03.8	It was not
2:04.5	seen for but two weeks
2:06.9	until Mrs.
2:08.7	Lick shit thought the
2:10.7	town well water tasted
2:12.5	funny. And god damn
2:14.7	if Gourby had it
2:16.5	drowned himself, Curtis, Curtis, hear this song, delivered by our own Steve the penitent.
2:33.6	Mm-mm. by our own Steve the penitent.
2:42.1	Come on, sport, I lied to my son.
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