[encore] 935: Happy Campus

Today’s poem is Happy Campus by Rodrigo Toscano. This episode was originally released on August 3, 2023.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem of self-mocking irony makes the connection between our daily routines and the natural and artificial environments that we navigate—how we negotiate a dissonance that complicates our sense of what’s real and what’s unreal.”
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