Dennis O'Hare
speaker
246 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 6 Aug
Dennis O'Hare’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
Faded bottle caps,
Rusted bits of chrome, an occasional paperclip, recede into the earth.
I circle a ticket booth, sun-faded, empty, door closed by an oversized padlock.
I walk beside the tall, machinery-green board fence.
A half-mile away, a few cars hiss along the freeway.
Overhead, a single-engine plane fizzes lazily.
The whole place is silent as an empty classroom, like a house suddenly without children.
It is then that I spot the door shape.
I have to check twice to be sure it is there.
A door cut in the deep green boards of the fence.
More the promise of a door than the real thing.
The kind of door as children we cut in the sides of cardboard boxes with our mother's paring knives.
As I move closer, a golden circle of lock, like an acrimonious eye, establishes its certainty.
I stand.
My nose, so close to the door, I can smell the faint odor of paint, the golden eye of a lock inches from my own eyes.
My desire to be inside the ballpark is so great that for the first time in my life, I commit a criminal act.
I have been a locksmith for over 40 years.
I take the small tools from my pocket of my jacket, and in less time than it would take a speedy runner to circle the bases, I am inside...
The stadium.
Though the ballpark is open air, it smells of abandonment.
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