A mother and son listen to “Stayin’ Alive” in a poem by Evan Leslie

In Evan Leslie's poem "We Play 'Stayin’ Alive'", a son goes through his late father's things with his mother and comes across a copy of the 1977 "Saturday Night Fever" LP. They put it on "his old beloved, / big, wood-finished Magnavox" and hear how "that Saturday Night Fever bass starts

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WE PLAY “STAYIN’ ALIVE” by Evan Leslie

WE PLAY “STAYIN’ ALIVE” and learn howling and crackle are common to both the sounds of longing and the sounds of losing – like fire snaps, like this needle-kissed hiss that warms …

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