Mar 12 2023 86 mins
Readings of gooey-gorgeous sweet sugar-high poems from Colin Herd and Maria Sledmere's collaborative book, Cocoa and Nothing 🍫
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Whole-not
by Ian Macartney
after Maria Sledmere and Colin Herd’s “Cocoa and Nothing”
hullo.
have you ever [colin] heard
of Marathon bars?
they used
to be Marathon
and now they are Snickers
because it’s sort
of like you laugh
at them a lot,
but in a sneaky way.
i just read
on the greatest wikipedia page
of all time
that Snickers made 3 billion dollars in 2012,
the year of apocalypse,
which is crazy,
something that could kill me
also containing
a number
that makes even
millionaires sugar-sick.
i am allergic to all nuts,
but peanuts especially,
which is why snickers
would kill me,
that and their 3 billion dollars
which can probably be spent
on, like,
arms dealing or whatever.
that or milk.
Marathon deceased
as a name
in 1990
which is funny
because Maria Sledmere
probably loves that decade
and she is here.
and then Colin Herd circulates
in marathons,
18 times around the Meadows
for an Edinburgh variant
for example,
and mother of chocolately god,
he is also here.
Kirsty Dunlop
is a Snickers unto herself
in all her galaxies of taste
and jubilant crunch
and engaging questions.
she hosts.
Snickers does nothing
but ask questions
like, how
the hell did i just make 3 billion dollars?!
anyway, Snickers
don’t come up once
in this episode
of URL Sonata,
the SPAM Press podcast,
because the German
chocolate Ritter Sport
has to magic the moment,
a chocolate i
(Ian Macartney, hi)
discovered only
from the book
Cocoa and Nothing,
which just got published by SPAM,
because i am allergic
to nuts in a way
that dismisses
so many delicious experiences
when i see shiny wrappers
and o, hey, look,
Maria Sledmere and Colin Herd
confectioned that book
and they are here.
enjoy
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Colin Herd and Maria Sledmere's Cocoa and Nothing
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Intro/Outro: Ian Macartney
Production: Ian Macartney
Music: adios nervosa