835: "anyone can be beautiful:
The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
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🗓️ 16 March 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Today’s poem is "anyone can be beautiful: by Kay Gabriel. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest host Jason Schneiderman writes… “Today’s poem is from a sequence of sonnets celebrating Candy Darling. The poet starts her poems with a quote from Darling’s diaries, engaging her intellect, but never forgetting the beautiful surface she presented to the world.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is guest-hosted by the poet Jason Schneiderman. |
| 0:06.2 | Don't worry, I'll be back in your feeds on March 27th. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Jason Schneiderman, and this is The Slowdown. |
| 0:30.0 | Am I famous? I don't think so. |
| 0:33.0 | I've published some books, but when I walk down the street, no one ever says, |
| 0:37.0 | oh my god, that's Jason Schneiderman. |
| 0:40.0 | I don't think I'd really like to be famous. |
| 0:43.0 | I like attention, sure, who doesn't, but I fear scrutiny. |
| 0:48.0 | I don't want people going through my garbage or sneaking pictures of me in airports. |
| 0:53.0 | Once, I was recognized in a coffee shop in Brooklyn and someone asked me for my autograph, |
| 0:59.0 | and I thought, oh, maybe I'm famous, but I'm not. |
| 1:03.0 | It just happened that one time. |
| 1:05.0 | And when I've met famous people, I once gave Al Pacino directions to a bathroom. |
| 1:10.0 | I don't like that either. |
| 1:12.0 | I don't want someone famous to be life-sized. |
| 1:17.0 | There have been few people who understood fame better than Andy Warhol. |
| 1:23.0 | Fame is a particular kind of attention, and Warhol was a kind of genius at attracting it. |
| 1:30.0 | Surrounding himself with beautiful and talented people producing artworks |
| 1:35.0 | that are impossible to look away from and delivering pronouncements that were glib, clever, |
| 1:40.0 | and as puzzling as a zen koan. |
| 1:44.0 | What did he mean exactly when he said that in the future we will all be famous for 15 minutes? |
| 1:51.0 | Was he predicting social media? |
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