Hi friends, and welcome to another Robcast.

This is part four of the series I'm doing

on learning to lament.

And this one, this part four is called

as deep as the sea.

And what I want to show you is something that happens

over the course of the first two poems.

This book of lamentations, which we're working through,

is five poems.

And there's this thing that happens when the woman first speaks.

There's a narrator, there's a woman,

and there's a third character who hasn't appeared yet.

So right now it's just the narrator and the woman.

And in episode three, we sort of walk through how it takes

the woman a while to find her voice,

essentially seasoned shock.

And sometimes when you're lamenting, when you're in pain,

when you're suffering loss, heartache,

you don't have words because you're in shock.

Sometimes you're in shock for a long, long, long time.

But what's really interesting to me is what the woman says,

she's the personification of the city.

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