CELEBRATION: WHAT DO WE CELEBRATE WHEN WE CELEBRATE STAR WARS, MOTHER (HUMAN AND EARTH), JOHN MUIR’S 1000 MILE WALK TO THE GULF: or, WHAT’S EPIC IN YOUR HEART? MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU

No, not the revenge of the Fifth—this is your Poetry Slow Down, with a special intergenerational Star Wars unit devised by your intrepid geek nerd techy Producer Zappa Johns and host Dr. B, and Zappa is fresh from Orlando, Florida, attending Celebration, the Star Wars gathering, our man on the ground, so to speak, with the stars, on Star Wars, and we’ll have his thoughts for us, its epic meaning to his life, and my reflections of its relation to our times, our very headlines of the day, and U.S. and world history, and poetry (of course), including Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, and the book and film Wizard of Oz, and then of course it’s Mother’s Day, and we’ll slow down for the poetry of that, including my own poem about my mother, and I’ll update you on my trek in the letter and spirit of John Muir’s equally epic-inspired 1000 Mile Walk to the Gulf.

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We want to know, Would you put Poetry on Voyager’s Golden Record?

Saying future Intelligent Life can come up with a record player to play our Golden Record on Voyager, to represent earth knowledge and experience: would you put poetry on it? (It isn’t on the one hurtling as we speak in interstellar space)

If so, what poem(s)? The work of what poet? Any saying? If you could choose, what last words?