Connor and Jack scour the gently unsettling poem "Gesture with Both Hands Tied" by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo. They discuss the poem's challenging lack of a stable speaker, negations of contradictions of negations, and a hypothetical play involving a character mostly not getting up from their chair. You can find Marcelo Hernandez Castillo's work here: https://www.marcelohernandezcastillo.com/ Find us on Facebook at: facebook.com/closetalking  Find us on Twitter at: twitter.com/closetalking  Find us on Instagram: @closetalkingpoetry You can always send us an e-mail with thoughts on this or any of our previous podcasts, as well as suggestions for future shows, at [email protected]. Gesture with Both Hands Tied By: Marcelo Hernandez Castillo I’m going to open the borders of my hunger and call it a parade. But I’m lying if I said I was hungry. If dying required practice, I could give up the conditions for being alone. I undress in the sun and stare at it until I can stand its brightness no longer. Why is it always noon in my head? I’m going to run outside and whisper, or hold a gun and say bang, or hold a gun and not do anything at all. The lamps that wait inside me say come, the gift is the practice, the price is the door.

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