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A Poet’s Account of the Power of the Yodel

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A Poet’s Account of the Power of the Yodel
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The yodel: the perfect acknowledgment of that which cannot be hidden anymore and therefore also that which we have always had to hide.
The yodel: the flickering Adam’s apple. Not unlike a sound we sometimes ever inadvertently make, a kind of croaking sound, a sound that is not so much even made as it is emitted and then immediately and often embarrassingly, very forgivably, try to cover up, with a faked cough or a clearing of the throat. But that is it: the yodel must be forgiven. And the yodel

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