Some Other Sign that People Do Not Totally Regret Life

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.8 • 27.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2012

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Sean Cole is a poet and he knows what you think of that. He is also a radio producer. One night, drunk and stumbling around the Hudson River with his friend Malissa O’Donnell, he discovered a monument — two of … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	This is a 99% invisible.
0:02.0	I'm Roman Mars.
0:05.1	So I think we're actually,
0:06.2	we on that side?
0:07.6	And this is radio producer Sean Cole in New York City.
0:11.3	This is a reenactment. We're just going to lay this out the way it happened.
0:14.0	I'm here with my friend Melissa at the Hudson River on the piers where we were almost exactly a year ago
0:21.0	walking along, you know, casually, pretty drunk.
0:26.0	We were.
0:27.0	Drunk, talking about poetry.
0:29.0	As you do when it's late and you're in a part of town you've never been before and it feels like anything could happen.
0:34.6	Spontaneously Melissa asked Sean to read her a poem.
0:38.0	That one about things being dirty by the late great Frank O'Hara.
0:42.0	Is it dirty?
0:43.0	He read it to her before.
0:45.0	Does it look dirty?
0:46.0	He carried that O'Hara book around with him everywhere.
0:49.0	That's what you think of in the city.
0:51.0	Does it just seem dirty? That's what you think of in the city. You
0:58.9	don't refuse to breathe, do you? Sean's a huge O'Hara fan, which will become important in about two minutes.
1:07.0	So anyway, they kept walking and walking,
1:10.0	until finally they wind up in a little plaza.
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