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Smells Like the Spirit of Radio

from There's No Place Like Know Where? by Run-On Sunshine

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I'm in Tampa! No more winter. Other things still need improvement.
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Came here for the learning, where winter never stays. Town I left was not home, sick feeling anyway.

Driving across the Gandy. Stoked that Rancid’s playing! Sun rays on bay my only friend. None in dorm had interest. They're hooked on Temple Pilots, sharing space but not reference.

They’re not on the radio!, except for Nirvana. Dear ones live in records, tapes, all ages spaces. Symptom that something is wrong! No one to relate. Sandal rich fucks techno drugs, take me away!

First story got check minus, but taught me show don’t tell. Profs help me find my real voice.

Trade feedback with students, some of whom don’t get me. I’m writing what I know. They think punk’s not for poems; their words not wise but old.

Excited for a meeting. "Looking for new deejays." Rotation, otherwise freeform. Reach is campus-only, AM 1070. Our audience mostly ourselves.

Living on the radio! WUTZ. "We know you hate us" we proclaim, because they say…“Play us something that we know!” Deejays becoming friends, weird as me, maybe things will be okay!

Now music director. “Hey, labels, send records.” Next station manager, because no one wanted it.

Makes me stay for summer, before my final year. Friends I’ve made have gone back home. Growing tight with local bands, who live way out in Brandon. After shows I’m so alone.

Living in the radio station, I’m squatting! Can’t afford to pay more for dorm; note quite legal. Roaches crawling on poster! Superchunk above me. Norwalk summer I’m missing. Reconnecting fun last year, now so long and far away!

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from There's No Place Like Know Where?, released June 22, 2017
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Photo: Plant Park, Tampa, FL, with a view of the downtown skyline including the "beer can" building.

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