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ROARSHOCK READ 2020 A catalogue of works read by D. A. “Roarshock” Wilson from March through December 2020 live before global audiences via online streaming events. These readings originated from Martinez, California and San Francisco, California. Most recordings are archived on Roarshock Channel on the YouTube platform. There were additional readings during this period which were not noted or recorded.

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Page 1: ROARSHOCK READ 2020

ROARSHOCK READ 2020

A catalogue of works read by D. A. “Roarshock” Wilson from March through December 2020 live before

global audiences via online streaming events. These readings originated from Martinez, California and

San Francisco, California. Most recordings are archived on Roarshock Channel on the YouTube platform.

There were additional readings during this period which were not noted or recorded.

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Poems by D. A. Wilson

Asilomar Beach Meditations

Sticks Talking in Code

Moments Become Months

Fear

Weed Killer

The Wild Haired Phantom

The Rooms

Selection from The Asbestos Files

First Hours of a Rainy Day

Druidic Chores/Chorus

Clay Tablets

The First Annual/Animal Jack Kerouac Poem of Not-Doing

A Desperate Inspiration

Frustration

The Age of Zombies

The Way Dylan Looked

High Sierra

Saxmar the Unholy

Untitled (Loudly)

Blue Pyramid

The Return to Feather River

New Health Plan Work Poem

All Healing is Self-Healing

A Poem Unbidden

Alaska Was Sinking

The Grey Whale of Idaho

Grinning Skulls

Flow Poem

Summer Solstice Poem

Hoga For Yaga

Much Blood

Chernobyl Fright Poem

Off the Bus in Berkeley

Contact!

Cave Dweller

Fire Bird

Silence for John Lennon

Work Poem

Chairman of the World

The Misinterpretation of Paradise

Die, Pass Bye

Sky High Pie

Screaming Punk Blues

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Original Fragment

Twining Curling Threadbare

Perhaps the Start of Something Good

Paper Words

The Real Inventory

Garcia's Death

Ode to the Dead

What Is This Line For?

Words to the Soil, August 18 version

Roarshock Test: What Does It Look Like to You?

The Quest, Feast or Famine

Hide

To Fritz

Troll Troll

A Recipe for Trolls

Sticks Talking in Code

Troll Hole

Almost Another Berkeley Autumn

Sometimes the Roses Fade

On the Edge, Afraid to Leap

Shadow Boxes

High Sierra

To Make Things Grow on Earth

Sailors Sailing

Computer Dreams 2020

Shakespeare's Coffee

Poet's Economy

The Good Mister Wilson

Lands’ End

The News Stand

Only October

Halloween

More Excerpts from The Asbestos Files

Spirit Catcher

This Poem Is Marked Graveyard

Speedy Delivery

Atom Insects

A True Patriot

Wasted Face

The Night John Lennon Died

Winter Solstice Poem

Mabel's Fable

We Are the Pomegranate

Moderate Lee

The Funny Face Gang

Hong Kong Transfer

In The Reading Room with Two Poets

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Other Poems

In A Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound

A Sinister of Siamese by Margo Skinner

To Sister Mary by Margo Skinner

The Span of Life by Robert Frost

Bread vs. Mozart's Watch by Lew Welch

The Emperor of Ice Cream by Wallace Stevens

Passed Druid Guards by Fritz Leiber

Poor Little Ape by Fritz Leiber

The Grey Mouser I by Fritz Leiber

The Grey Mouser II by Fritz Leiber

The Jumblies by Edward Lear

The Stone Troll by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Mewlips by J.R.R. Tolkien

Pumpkin Head by Chip Roberts

Real Replica Watches Revolution 9 by Anon of Ibid

The Adventures of Mythic the Snake by Chip Roberts

Real Replica Watches Eight Hour by Anon of Ibid

Waiting for Persephone by Esther Fishman

Winter is icumen in by Ezra Pound

The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats

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Life in 2020 Photographs by D. A. Wilson

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List of Readings

Spoken Word Online

Hosted by David Barnes

Monday, March 23, 2020

Top of the Hill, Martinez, California

Asilomar Beach Meditations

Sticks Talking in Code

Moments Become Months

Spoken World Online

Week 3

Monday, March 30, 2020

Top of the Hill MTZ

In A Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound

Fear

Weed Killer

The Wild Haired Phantom

The Rooms

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Spoken World Online

Week 4

Monday, April 6, 2020

Selection from The Asbestos Files

Spoken World Online

Week 5

Monday, April 13, 2020

A Sinister of Siamese by Margo Skinner

To Sister Mary by Margo Skinner

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Spoken World Online

Week 6

Monday, April 20, 2020

Roarshock Reads to Turkeys

@ 420

Top of the Hill MTZ

Spoken World Online

Week 7

Monday, April 27, 2020

First Hours of a Rainy Day

Druidic Chores/Chorus

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Spoken World Online

Week 8

Monday, May 4, 2020

Clay Tablets

The First Annual/Animal Jack Kerouac Poem of Not-Doing

A Desperate Inspiration

Frustration

Spoken World Online

Week 9

Monday, May 11, 2020

The Age of Zombies

The Way Dylan Looked

High Sierra

Saxmar the Unholy

Untitled (Loudly)

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Spoken World Online

Week 10

Monday, May 18, 2020

Blue Pyramid

The Return to Feather River

Spoken World Online

Week 11

Monday, May 25, 2020

New Health Plan Work Poem

All Healing is Self-Healing

A Poem Unbidden

The Span of Life by Robert Frost

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Spoken World Online

Week 12

Monday, June 1, 2020

Alaska Was Sinking

The Grey Whale of Idaho

Spoken World Online

Week Lucky 13

Monday, June 8, 2020

Grinning Skulls

Flow Poem

Spoken World Online

Week 14

Monday, June 15, 2020

Summer Solstice Poem

Hoga For Yaga

Spoken World Online

Week 15

Monday, June 22, 2020

Much Blood

Chernobyl Fright Poem

Off the Bus in Berkeley

Spoken World Online

Week 16

Monday, June 29, 2020

First Hours of a Rainy Day

All Healing is Self-Healing

Contact!

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Spoken World Online

Hosted by David Leo Sirois

Week 17

Monday, July 6, 2020

Cave Dweller

Fire Bird

Silence for John Lennon

Spoken World Online

Week 18

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Grinning Skulls

Work Poem

Chairman of the World

The Misinterpretation of Paradise

Die, Pass Bye

Sky High Pie

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Spoken World Online

Week 19

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Screaming Punk Blues

Original Fragment

Twining Curling Threadbare

Perhaps the Start of Something Good

Paper Words

The Real Inventory

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Spoken World Online

Week 20

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Bread vs. Mozart's Watch by Lew Welch

Spoken World Online

Week 21

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Garcia's Death

Ode to the Dead

Spoken World Online

Week 22

Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Roarshock Den San Francisco

The Emperor of Ice Cream by Wallace Stevens

What Is This Line For?

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Spoken World Online

Week 23

Tuesday, August 18, 2020

First Hour of a Rainy Day read by David Leo Sirois

Top of the Hill MTZ

Selections from Words to the Soil

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Spoken World Online

Week 24

Tuesday. August 25, 2020

San Francisco

Roarshock Test: What Does It Look Like to You?

The Quest, Feast or Famine

Hide

Spoken World Online

Week 25

Tuesday, September 1, 2020

The Front Garden, Top of the Hill MTZ

Passed Druid Guards by Fritz Leiber

Poor Little Ape by Fritz Leiber

To Fritz

The Grey Mouser I by Fritz Leiber

The Grey Mouser II by Fritz Leiber

Spoken World Online

Week 26

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Troll Poems by Dr. Zoro S. R. Troll

Cave Dweller

Troll Troll

A Recipe for Trolls

Sticks Talking in Code

Troll Hole

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Spoken World Online

Week 27

Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Top of the Hill MTZ

Almost Another Berkeley Autumn

Sometimes the Roses Fade

On the Edge, Afraid to Leap

Shadow Boxes

The Wild Haired Phantom

Spoken World Online

Week 28

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Roarshock Den

High Sierra

To Make Things Grow on Earth

Sailors Sailing

The Jumblies by Edward Lear

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Angora Poets World Caffé

Hosted by Moe Seager

Sunday, September 27, 2020

Grinning Skulls

Flow Poem

The Good Mister Wilson

Spoken World Online

Week 29

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

San Francisco

The Stone Troll by J. R. R. Tolkien

Computer Dreams 2020

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Spoken World Online

Week 30

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

San Francisco

Shakespeare's Coffee

Poet’s Economy

Spoken World Online

Week 31

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

San Francisco

Lands’ End

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Roarshock Reading on Periscope

Thursday, October 15,2020

San Francisco

Lands' End

Spoken World Online

Week 32

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Martinez

The News Stand

The Good Mister Wilson

Spoken World Online

Week 33

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

The Front Garden MTZ

Only October

The Mewlips by J.R.R. Tolkien

Halloween

Pumpkin Head by Chip Roberts

Maximus Beast read by Lee Dunlap

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Angora Poets World Caffé

Sunday, November 1, 2020

San Francisco

Only October

Real Replica Watches Revolution 9 by Anon of Ibid

Pumpkin Head by Chip Roberts

The Grey Whale of Idaho

Alaska Was Sinking

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Angora Poets World Caffé

Sunday, November 8, 2020

Martinez

Spirit Catcher

This Poem Is Marked Graveyard

The Adventures of Mythic the Snake by Chip Roberts

Contact!

The Rooms

Spoken World Online

Week 35

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

More Excerpts from The Asbestos Files

Angora Poets World Caffé

Sunday, November 15, 2020

Martinez

Speedy Delivery

Atom Insects

A True Patriot

Spoken World Online

Week 36 Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Martinez

First Hours of a Rainy Day

This Poem is Marked Graveyard

Speedy Delivery

Spoken World Online

Week 37

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

San Francisco

Real Replica Watches Eighth Hour by Anon of Ibid

Waiting for Persephone by Esther Fishman

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Angora Poets World Caffé

Sunday, December 6, 2020

San Francisco

Winter is icumen in by Ezra Pound

Shadow Boxes

Wasted Face

The Night John Lennon Died

Silence for John Lennon

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Spoken World Online

Week 39

Tuesday, December 8, 2020

San Francisco

Nobody Bats a Thousand

The Night John Lennon Died

Silence for John Lennon

Sacred Grounds

Hosted by Daniel Brady

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

San Francisco

The Span of Life by Robert Frost

Hoga for Yaga

A Poem Unbidden

Spoken World Online

Week 40

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

San Francisco

We Are the Pomegranate

Angora Poets World Caffé

Sunday, December 13, 2020

San Francisco

Rain Dreams

Sacred Grounds

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

San Francisco

Asilomar Beach Meditations

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Angora Poets World Caffé

Sunday, December 20, 2020

Martinez

In A Station of the Metro

Druidic Chores/Chorus

Winter Solstice Poem

Mabel's Fable

We Are the Pomegranate

Spoken World Online

Week 41

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Top of the Hill MTZ

Sons of Anacreon

Winter Solstice Poem

Moderate Lee

In The Reading Room with Two Poets read by Lee Dunlap

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Angora Poets World Caffé

Sunday, December 27, 2020

San Francisco

The Funny Face Gang

Hong Kong Transfer

In The Reading Room with Two Poets

Untitled (Loudly)

The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats

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Spoken World Online

Week 42

Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Top of the Hill MTZ

The Funny Face Gang

The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats

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