Live: William Carlos Williams' "The Fool's Song"

The Daily Poem

Goldberry Studios

Education For Kids, Arts, Kids & Family

4.6 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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This special, live edition of The Daily Poem was recorded at the Close Reads 10th Anniversary celebration last weekend in Concord, NC. Happy reading!

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0:00.0	Today is...
0:01.8	Welcome back to the Daily Poem, a podcast from Goldberry Studios.
0:06.6	I'm Sean Johnson.
0:08.1	I'm David Kern.
0:09.0	I'm Heidi White.
0:10.0	Today is Saturday, August 2nd, 2025.
0:13.3	It's the rare Saturday Daily Poet.
0:15.1	That's right.
0:16.5	So today's poem is by William Carolez Williams.
0:18.6	We'll read it once or twice, offer a few thoughts
0:21.0	in conversation, and then read it once again. Sean, you want to read it first? Sure.
0:27.1	The Fool's Song. I tried to put a bird in a cage, oh, fool that I am, for the bird was truth.
0:36.8	Sing merrily truth. I tried to put truth in a cage.
0:41.3	And when I had the bird in the cage, oh fool that I am, why it broke my pretty cage, sing
0:47.6	merrily truth, I tried to put truth in a cage.
0:51.4	And when the bird was flown from the cage, oh fool that I am.
0:56.0	Why, I had nor bird nor cage.
0:58.9	Sing merrily truth.
1:00.6	I tried to put truth in a cage.
1:02.7	Hey, ho, truth in a cage.
1:07.3	Okay, Heidi, will you read it, but it's a comedy?
1:09.9	No, I'm too.
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