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McFadden reads: “All people are frightened of time, but time is afraid of poetry.”\n\t\t020\t“The Mother of God.”\n\t\t037\t“The community of poets.”\n\t\t055\t“An Experiment with Tim Horton”\n\t\t087\t“Greed”\n\t\t094\t“Resting Place”\n\t\t109\t“Domestic Art”\n\t\t118\t“Young Mother”\n\t\t129\t“Small Flowers”\n\t\t148\t“The Rockies”\n\t\t163\t“The Legendary Wisdom of the Aged”\n\t\t172\t“This poem is about my wife: “The years have been tough on her…”\n\t\t211\t“An experiment with Leonard Cohen”\n\t\t218\t“A man was Teaching a little girl to play solitaire…”\n\t\t221\t“Bob & Paul are co-workers in the rolling mill…”\n\t\t240\t“3 cows Standing in a Pond”\n\t\t294\t“Flying Over Indiana”\n\t\t308\t“Twins”\n\t\t318\t“An Experiment with Debussy”\n\t\t349\t“Orpheus”\n\t\t365\t“The Morning Man”\n\t\t413\t“Food Poisoning”\n\t\t574\t“Moose Jaw”\n\t\t600\t“This is in… 7 parts… “The Golden Treasury of Knowledge”\n\t\t731\t“The Wound”\n\t\t752\t“Fairies”\n\t\t841\t“Vibrations (for Mr. Doug Henning)”\n\t\t877\t“How to Become Part of Nature”\n\t\t903\t“I Met a Hairy Woman on a Hill”\n\t\t927\t“Incident at Parsborough”\n\t\t955\t“Apple Tree”\n\t\t966\t“Somewhere South of Springhill”\n\t\t1016\t“Low Tide at Noel”\n\t\t1051\t“Painting the Fence”\n\t\t1069\t“The night Watchman”\n\t\t1084\t“Burnt Toast”\n\t\t1115\t“The Invention of Gunpowder”\n\t\t1134\t“Debbie and Doris’ Dad”\n\t\t1159\t“The Death of Prose”\n\t\t1180\t“Scar Tissue”\n\t\t1189\t“The Saint”\n\t\t1204\t“Impotence”\n\t\t1233\t“The Sign Fell Off”\n\t\t1271\t“Rapid Boiler Makers”\n\t\t1307\t“Little Ralter Rope”\n\t\t1335\t“Death of a Man Who Owned the Swimming Pool”\n\t\t1365\tEnd of reading"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"David McFadden Reading at the Western Front, April 21, 1975 Side 1 45 min. 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