Poor homophobes

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me reflected in gold fleck screen

they really do have it hard.

some of them believe their children will not go to heaven!

how sad it must be to live that way

I mean if you don’t believe in heaven, that’s one thing

but say that you did

and you believe that you’ll be there

with most everyone

you love

but the child you bore

will burn in some hell

not because of anything they’ve done,

but because of who they are

and who they love.

I pity the phobes.

/

and what an evil sect

to teach and train

this heartbreak in

/

but that’s how they get you

god money sin

god money sin

/

AND THESE POOR NATIONALISTS

you know these guys have it really rough.

most of them think they have to kill human beings for land and sea!

can you believe?

what a tortured way of living

because if this is your truth

you are never enough

never have enough

and it hurts so much

since you don’t know anything,

and what you were sold

was to do you in!

so you take someone’s

life and land

but your soul, then

it eats you from within

I pity them

since one way or another, everyone learns

in the end

/

and what an evil sect

to breed and burn

this hatred in

/

but that’s how they get you

god money death

god money death

CHURCH AND STATE.

-nicole garlando (cole)
April 16, 11:00pm 2024

prayer excerpt : archive

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i took a step further in to the meadow.

it was tall as my hips 

some

giant dandelions 

sparse and wild.

i walked back toward the house

stopped again.

knelt 

having walked in.

 the sky moved but was so big it was steady.

i could see.

for the silence

may 2019

excerpt, by nicole garlando.

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Human Interviews Episode 24: Fitrah

Aired Dec 9, 2023 on radio614.org with replays there and wcrs.fm columbus, ohio.

With: Anonymous, Hanif Abdurraqib, Joseph, Anonymous. Episode themes: #fitrah #soul #self #love #compassion #curiosity #failure #change #words #conflict #faith #belief

Some favorite songs/artists of the participants and me programmed after the radio air: “God in Wilson” and “Do You Light Up” by Dijon; “I Love Music” by the Ahmad Jamal Trio; “Helpless” Neil Young, The Band, Joni Mitchell; “I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times” The Beach Boys; “Know Your Enemy” Rage Against the Machine

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Ep_23 “To Leave the Loop”

e_23 “To Leave The Loop” originally aired November 26, 2023 at 7p est on radio614.org with replays there and at wcrs.fm columbus, ohio.

Includes excerpts from interviews with three different people. An anonymous monk of Tibetan Buddhism; Alexia Montgomery, a creative and entrepreneur currently in NYC; and Donte Woods-Spikes, a Columbus author, speaker, and community worker.

In this episode we touch on #separation #buddhism #god #self #language and #love

Thank you to the participants for contributing a moment’s perspective and to everyone listening to the show. I am grateful and honored to share this with you. – Cole

HUMAN INTERVIEWS _e22

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Ep_22 “Have It Come Home To You”

Ep_22 of Human Interviews “Have It Come Home To You” with an Anonymous human and artist; Tracey Girard an entrepreneur; PEACE OF MND Columbus rapper and creative.

In this episode we talk a bit about #compassion #education #complexity #systems #loneliness #ancestors #love #perception #peace

Gratitude to all the contributors and thank you to everyone who is listening.

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Ep_21 “A Release Toward”

Ep_21 aired Oct 29, 2023 on radio614.org with replays there and wcrs.fm columbus, ohio.

Part 2 with Bebe Miller and Hanif Abdurraqib I sat down with them separately in the summer of 2023.

This episode features some of their ideas on #love #afterlife #ghosts #dogs #dancing #belief #hope and more. A special episode, I hope you enjoy.

Thank you to the interviewees, their dogs, and to everyone that is listening.

Music included in the radio air: “God Only Knows” by the Beach Boys, and “Little Wing” by Jimi Hendrix.

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Ep_20 “Love Is a Variable”

Cole (Nicole Garlando) has two conversations, one with Bebe Miller and one with Hanif Abdurraqib to ask their ideas on our existential questions. This episode is Part I of their dialogue and it touches on love, time, self, and dogs (a host favorite).

Episode 20 aired on Radio614.org and WCRS.fm October 2023.

Songs included in radio edit: Leonard Cohen “Dance Me to the End of Love”; “Use Me” by Bill Withers, both because they are special to Bebe; and “Do You Light Up?” by Dijon on recommendation by Hanif Abdurraqib.

This was a big heart episode for me personally, for many reasons. Thank you to the interviewees and to everyone listening.

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Ep_19 aired Sep. 17, 2023

@radio614 7p Sundays with replays there and WCRS

I have the honor and pleasure to work with Columbus Community Pride and this year’s festival is coming up Saturday, Sept 23, 2023. On this episode I sit with Charlie, co-founder of Community Pride and core member of the Black Queer Intersectional Collective (BQIC) to ask their ideas on #love #truth #perception #belief #power #words #leadership

Featuring: Charlie @abolition4life

Music included on the radio air: “I Like That (Naxxos remix)” Janelle Monáe

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Ep_18 “Quantity Time and the Dream Travelers”

Episode 18 features Cole in conversation with Anonymous and s. lumbert. The guests never met one another and live on opposite coasts but are both phenomenal dancers and human beings. Both interviews took place in the early summer of 2023.

Themes: #love #death #perception #dreamers #time #individual #community #words

Songs featured inside the episode when it premiered on September 10, 2023 on Radio614 and replayed that week on WCRS:

“Simmer”by Mahalia

“Same Ole Love (365 Days a Year) by Anita Baker

“A Wolf at the Door” and “Where I End and You Begin” by Radiohead

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Episode_17 out now on #mixcloud has @cole______g (Cole Garlando) in conversation with Shakya and Nicole Kim. This ep. features some of their thoughts and ideas from that day on #love, #perception, #songwriting, #psychosis, #meditation, and #self. Shakya, and Nicole Kim (aka Dakimi) are stellar human beings currently living in Germany. Shakya is a former Buddhist monk who is currently a university student of psychology. Nicole Kim is a singer/songwriter who recently finished her master’s thesis on solar energy. Inside this episode you will hear an original song, “Sell Me Two” with lyrics by Dakimi in collaboration with handpan musician, Mandakini. This episode was recorded in September 2022 and was technically the final episode of Human Interviews created for @verge.fm though it has not been available to listen to until now via this link! Stay tuned for more new episodes of HUMAN INTERVIEWS throughout 2023 as the project continues ❤ Thank you to Shakya and Nicole Kim for their share and significant share that day; to all those who support and contribute to this project throughout the years; and to everyone who is listening. I’m so joyful and honored to be sharing these again. Take good care out there. Listen to the episode

try and keep up

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just listen_

do what calls to you from inside your voice_

under your belly_

behind the heart of you_

what is that thing that resides there?

what is that move that is made_ 

from that which comes from another place?

not of this plane.

a place that has no name_

that which cannot be named_

it is not god_

for god is a name_

an idea_ 

we have created_ 

to try to understand these things_

to try to understand anything_

there is no name that can be called that tells me who or what you are_

here, “you” is the unnameable thing_

the voice inside the voice_

under my bones_

behind my blood source_

you are there and i can feel you_

when i sleep _

when i wake_

i have no idea of your origin_

though i imagine no idea could hold it_

and from there i expand to trust_

whatever will be done, must.

when you speak through me_

i am sure_

i feel in line wth the universe_

i am me again_

often though it’s so loud i cannot hear you_

and i am operating_ 

as if outside my self _

so i quiet down_

i write_

i come closer to my body _

by feeling and observing_

i let the judgement drop about what is real and what is not_

my imagination and stories quicken, to try and keep up_

i slow them again_

to let my body run.

-nicole garlando (cole) 2023