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Ode To Gravity: Kenward Elmslie	Listen
Item Type: Sound Recording	Duration: 1 min
Event Type: Spoken Word	Program Origin: KPFA
In what is most likely an out-take from a program featuring the poet Kenward Elmslie we hear what is presumed to be Elmslie reciting the following lines of poetry: We're shit / we're shit / we're shit we're shit on / on from above / on from above The air smells of shit / electric chair shit

Part 1 of 2:
Genre:	Poetry
Subject:	Poetry
People:	Elmslie, Kenward
Recording Date:	3/5/1975

Part 2 of 2:
Musical Selections:	Girl Machine [poem] -- Easter for Ann [poem] -- At the Controls [poem] -- Winterlife [poem] -- Floozies [from the musical “The Grass Harp”] -- Chain of Love [from the musical “The Grass Harp”] -- Vaudeville, for Jean Harlow [poem] -- Nov. 25 [poem] -- [untitled song]
Performers:	Lee Crabtree, piano (untitled song) Kenward Elmslie, vocals (untitled song)
Genre:	Poetry
Subject:	Elmslie, Kenward; Poetry; Poets; Librettists; Musicals
People:	Elmslie, Kenward; Amirkhanian, Charles; Richardson, Claibe; Crabtree, Lee
Recording Date:	3/5/1975
First Broadcast Date:	5/14/1975

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Ode To Gravity:Kenward Elmslie