Virus-free.www.avg.com RADIO ETHER PROGRAM TWO THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY ONE (DEATH ETHER) Nothing But Death Pablo Neruda 1904 - 1973 There are cemeteries that are lonely, graves full of bones that do not make a sound, the heart moving through a tunnel, in it darkness, darkness, darkness, like a shipwreck we die going into ourselves, as though we were drowning inside our hearts, as though we lived falling out of the skin into the soul. And there are corpses, feet made of cold and sticky clay, death is inside the bones, like a barking where there are no dogs, coming out from bells somewhere, from graves somewhere, growing in the damp air like tears of rain. Sometimes I see alone coffins under sail, embarking with the pale dead, with women that have dead hair, with bakers who are as white as angels, and pensive young girls married to notary publics, caskets sailing up the vertical river of the dead, the river of dark purple, moving upstream with sails filled out by the sound of death, filled by the sound of death which is silence. Death arrives among all that sound like a shoe with no foot in it, like a suit with no man in it, comes and knocks, using a ring with no stone in it, with no finger in it, comes and shouts with no mouth, with no tongue, with no throat. Nevertheless its steps can be heard and its clothing makes a hushed sound, like a tree. I'm not sure, I understand only a little, I can hardly see, but it seems to me that its singing has the color of damp violets, of violets that are at home in the earth, because the face of death is green, and the look death gives is green, with the penetrating dampness of a violet leaf and the somber color of embittered winter. But death also goes through the world dressed as a broom, lapping the floor, looking for dead bodies, death is inside the broom, the broom is the tongue of death looking for corpses, it is the needle of death looking for thread. Death is inside the folding cots: it spends its life sleeping on the slow mattresses, in the black blankets, and suddenly breathes out: it blows out a mournful sound that swells the sheets, and the beds go sailing toward a port where death is waiting, dressed like an admiral. By Pablo Neruda, translated and edited by Robert Bly, and published by Beacon Press in Neruda & Vallejo: Selected Poems. © 1993 by Robert Bly LONG BLACK LIMOUSINE 1 1. Intro 2. Oh Death (Traditional) - Sarah Ogan Gunning [Girl of Constant Sorrow - Folk-Legacy Records - 1965] 3. Death Letter (Son House) - Cassandra Wilson [New Moon Daughter - Blue Note - 1995] 4. My Death (Eric Blau, Jacques Brel, Mort Shuman) - David Bowie [Ziggy Stardust - The Motion Picture - RCA - 1983] 5. talk 6. Slow Death (Cyril Jordan, Roy Loney) - The Dictators [Bloodbrothers - Asylum - 1978] 7. Death Ship (Dave Faulkner, Ian Sharples, Roddy Radalj) - Hoodoo Gurus [Stoneage Romeos - Big Time - 1984] (Remaster 2005) 8. Death Disco (Keith Levene, Johnny Rotten, Jim Walker, Jah Wobble, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky) - Public Image Ltd [7" - Virgin - 1979] 9. talk 10. Ase's Death (Edvard Grieg) - Duke Ellington and His Orchestra [Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 & 2 - Suite Thursday - Columbia - 1960] 11. Death Garage (Peter Holsapple) - Peter Holsapple [7" - Car Records - 1978] 12. An Ugly Death (Jay Reatard) - The Limiñanas [Jay Reatard - a French Tribute - Teenage Hate Records - 2014] LONG BLACK LIMOUSINE 2 13. talk 14. Death Message (Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Marc Blitzstein) - Raúl Juliá [Mack the Knife - Original Soundtrack Recording - CBS - 1989] 15. Wall of Death (Richard Thompson) - Nanci Griffith [Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful) - Elektra - 1998] 16. Death Singing (Patti Smith) - Garden on a Trampoline [PRF Tribute 103 [Patti Smith] - PRF - 2023] 17. talk 18. Ready to Die (The Notorious B.I.G) - The Notorious B.I.G. [Ready To Die - Bad Boy Entertainment - 1994] (2005 Remaster) 19. Many Men (Wish Death) (C. Jackson, D. Branch, L. Resto) - 50 Cent [Get Rich Or Die Tryin' - Shady Records, Aftermath Entertainment, Interscope Records, Violator Management, G Unit - 2003] 20. Crossroad (Bone, U-Neek, Tony-C) - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony [E. 1999 Eternal - Ruthless Records, Relativity - 1995] 21. talk 22. Angel of Death (Hank Williams) - Shane MacGowan's Popes [Across the Broad Atlantic - Live on Paddy's Day - New York - Dublin - Red Ink - 2002] 23. Funeral (Phoebe Bridgers) - Phoebe Bridgers [Stranger in the Alps - Dead Oceans - 2017] 24. Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan) - Bob Dylan [Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single - Columbia - 1973] 25. Outro 26. I'm Not Afraid to Die (David Rawlings, Gillian Welch) - Gillian Welch [Hell Among the Yearlings - Almo Records - 1998] [ETHER BONUS] 27. Transitions (Nikki Giovanni) - Nikki Giovanni [Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose (Audiobook) - HarperCollins - 2020] [ETHER BONUS] DJ: Charles Cicirella Tuesday, April 21, 2026 Cleveland, Ohio Artwork included ENJOY! ONWARD-FORWARD-INFINITE