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"Disco Sucks"

5/28/2026
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Read this essay on Substack!

Topics discussed:

-Disco Demolition Night

-Ernest Becker's "The Denial of Death" 

-See Matthew's great episode on the above

-Alice's essay, "On Fear"

-My essay, "The Iron Lyre"

-The Sleerickets episode "This Was Poetry"

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Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association
Art by David Anthony Klug

List of the most common metrical feet: 
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

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