#49 - A poem about the violence of too much love and too little love

In this episode, I read "Litany in which certain things are crossed out" by Richard Siken. It's a long, long poem and one that keeps you hooked from sentence to sentence, line break to line break. It's a poem where the scenes shift and unfold almost like a play on stage. It is the litany of a lover who loves too much and believes he gets too little in return. He knows he loves too much. He knows he shouldn't. Yet he finds it hard to love any other way, even when love fails him completely, and forever. Listen in! The poem I read can be accessed here - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48158/litany-in-which-certain-things-are-crossed-out The host, Ravneet Bawa as -   @one_third_above on Instagram   @maikeya on Twitter   Email: [email protected] Disclaimer: This podcast is created for sharing with friends and family, and only as a passion project amidst the Covid lockdown with no commercial interest. In all episodes I read from sources on the public internet or copies of books I possess. The commentary is all my own.