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I love my country. By which I mean I am indebted joyfully To all the people throughout its history Who have fought the government to make right. Where so many cunning sons and daughters Our fore mothers and forefathers Came singing through slaughter Came through hell and high water. So that we could stand here And behold breathlessly the sight. How a raging river of tears Cut a grand canyon of light.

--Ani DiFranco

#have one of my fav examples of spoken word #poetry #as set to #music #because on this deeply fucked-up President's day I think we need some #Ani DiFranco #did I ever tell y'all that my folk music obsession begin with Ani? I know most of you. if I haven't. would probably guess Anais Mitchell.#but its roots actually spring from the incomparable maggieandthedragon and her rec of Alice Isn't Dead. it's a podcast out of nightveil #and honestly? I'm still kinda floored how well a dude wrote a largely female cast. headed up by a woman driving cross-country for a #trucking company. crippled by anxiety but bound and determined to find her wife come hell or high water and giving zero fucks about anyone #in her way by about episode 5. anyway: as immensely my jam as the plot was. first season was kinda rocky--which Maggie'd warned me about #and Maggie and I didn't know each other well enough for me to trust her taste implicitly by then so I wasn't sure I wanted to be invested #in twenty-ish more eps of this. until I came across the first bonus episode and the lines above got quoted. they were so poetic they stole #my breath. and I didn't know shit about this Ani person but I knew A. anyone who could find lines like that was someone I was in for the #long haul with--best decision I made that entire year b/c Joseph Fink stuck the landing like nobody's business. and B.: I needed to find #this Ani person ASAP. which then led to Anais. which gave me the appreciation for folks like Jason Isbell and Stan Rogers when they came #into my life. and thus was my love of folk born #podcast babbling #at least in the tags

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