Aaron Smith

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2,298 appearances 12 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 25 Aug

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Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast · Breaking Form Selects: Melvin Dixon (A Summer Poetry Salon) · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah.

But like I just love but I just thought the langu you know, the have French and then talk about Spain, you know, I just thought there were so many places we were we were going.

I'm just gonna leave that there and move on to the next poem.

This one is called the 80s miracle diet.

Years free without the asking, quick delivery via overnight mail, special handling or ten year incubation, how I lost forty pounds in two weeks, cocktails of Perrier with a twist of AZT, Bactrim broiled with bacon bits, egg lipid quiche for brunch, our tongues ablaze on toast points in a stone.

the most talented minds, the best bodies of my generation going up in smoke.

Act now, Dal 1800, I got it too.

Our operators are standing by.

I have photographs to prove it, before and after, and passed away.

I mean that one again, there's so much overnight mail M A L E, you know, my pronunciation.

I don't know if I got that there.

And then Deborah, Ginsburg, the most talented minds, the best bodies of my generation, you know, going up in smoke to echo Ginsburg.

You know, and then I even think of like the sex lines, one eight hundred I got it too, you know, of the eighties.

Um you know

Yeah, I just think and it's also the eighties miracle diet.

I mean, everyone was trying to lose weight to to look a certain way and then to see people getting sick and wasting away.

I mean, you know, it's just like it's such a a poem of the time and it's critiquing the time while also talking about the illness.

And yeah, I just think it's just really um

There's something so distinctly Melvin Dixon.

I feel like you could read a Melvin Dixon poem and not tell me who it is, and it it would be a guy, you know, it would be somebody I I would come at 'cause he's able to say things like mercy, like these sort of Mercy, you know, these words that are hard to put in a poem and the adverbs work.

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