I interviewed Susie Ulrey from the band Pohgoh! She’s a guitarist and singer/songwriter who is living with Multiple Sclerosis. She’s a huge inspiration to me as she continues to create great art and thrive despite living with a disease that robs her of her mobility and peace of mind.
After our interview, she sent me this fantastic poem and I asked her if I could include it in the show notes:
The Thing Is | Ellen Bass
to love life,
to love it
even
when you have no
stomach for it and everything you’ve
held dear
crumbles like burnt
paper in your hands,
your throat filled
with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you,
its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy
as water
more fit for gills than
lungs;
when grief weights you
like your own flesh
only more of it, an
obesity of grief,
you think, How can a
body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a
face
between your palms, a
plain face,
no
charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you
say, yes, I will
take you
I will love you, again.
You can listen to Pohgoh here: https://pohgoh.bandcamp.com/
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