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Speak a Kind Word
Date
2023
Role
Daniel Swartz, Composer
Robert Paschell, Poet & Spoken Performance
In the summer of 2022, I met Robert selling t-shirts on the main road through Yellow Springs, Ohio. I was struck by his off-beat and strong sense of humor and his beautiful hand-drawn illustrations on all of the shirts. For example, an image of a human figure with a potato for a head sitting in a meditative pose in a field – “Meadow Tater” and “STOCK MARKET REPORT After The End Of The World: the Tao is unchanged”. As I perused his inventory, he approached and said, “Can I offer you a poem?” This piece is the result.
…
Speak a kind word
And a light goes on in another’s heart
They part the undergrowth and see the sun
When you let the light shine through you
Others see there are no boundaries
They stop clamping down water-tight doors of self
And the Ocean rushes in.
