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Max talks about a friend with mental health issues and depression, who would call and spend over 45 minutes talking about his issues, and then he wanted to tell jokes, which was his way of trying to heal himself. He also had a hard time dealing with his daughter's depression and made a joke about it, which caused a falling out. Max discussed his own depression with his friend and his parody poem.

Max reads his poem, I Got Blues, which was inspired by Mississippi Blues and artists like Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters.

Max also talks about his trips to Arabia Mountain and how healing nature is, and extolls on how great a chef Marco Pierre White is, how he left professional cooking to cook for the people he loves, a similar voyage that Max took. Arabia Mountain inspired his poem, The Mountain.

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In this episode, Max explores Mental Health and Emily Dickinson, her gregarious youth, and she went into seminary, which made her reclusive and did not leave her family's property. Upon her death, she asked her sister to destroy her letters, but her poetry survived.

During her lifetime, only a few of her poems were printed, mostly anonymously, and her writings were published after her death. They have spoken to millions over the decades.

Max reads:

• Because I Could Not Stop for Death
• I Heard a Fly Buzz when I Died
• A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
• There's a Certain Slant of Light
• A Bird Came Down the Walk
• The Soul Selects Her Own Society
• I Like to See it Lap in the Miles
• My Life Closed Twice Before it's Close
• Success is Counted, Sweetest
• I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed
• After Great Pain, the Former Feeling Comes
• I Felt a Funeral in My Brain
• I Never Saw a Moore
• Much Madness is Diviness Sense

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In this episode, Max researches NeuroticPoets.com , and Lord Byron shows right up and talks about his own mental health struggles and how poetry has helped him cope. Apparently, Lord Byron was born with a club foot, and a girl that he was interested in called him, "That lame boy," which was very hurtful. His poetry lays his soul bare.

His life was layered and brief - he died at 36 years old but left behind a treasure trove of poetry. Max reads:

• She Walks in Beauty,
• So We'll Go No More a Roving
• When We Two Parted
• There was a Sound of Rivelry by Night

These are reflective, powerful poems, so let us know what you think. Thanks for listening.

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