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# Ode to My Favorite Poetry Podcast, Now Featuring a Car Commercial
- URL: https://www.andyposner.org/ode-to-the-poetry-podcast/
- Published: 2023-02-19T17:15:12.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-21T04:43:57.000Z
- Description: I’ve come to take for granted so much--billboards and product placements, sponsored posts disguised as honest-to-goodness journalism, apps making me the product I can search and...
- Author: Andy
- Tags: Be The Change, poetry, #Migrated-1784090317409, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-15 04:39

I’ve come to take for granted so much--billboards and product placements, sponsored posts disguised as honest-to-goodness journalism, apps making me the product I can search and share and grow enraged, for free--why should a poetry podcast not be brought to me by the all-electric Nissan Ariya, a "fiercely beautiful vehicle, empowering you with an architectural, lounge-like atmosphere"? Poems are a kind of advertisement, too: Shakespeare hawking love and betrayal, Eliot selling me a story about a broken, breaking world. To the marketing execs at whatever agency realized I am the perfect potential EV buyer, might I suggest we give up the pretense, versify every commercial: Ballads for Bud Light, Ghazals for Geico Insurance, Villanelles for Viagra, Madrigals for McDonald's. Now, whenever sadness hits, I make a beeline for the shopping cart, braindead mariner, addict whose wallet opens like a door with the hinges blown off; and the scribbled poem which falls out may as well be gold bullion in a store that only takes Visa or Mastercard, thanks for understanding. -

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