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You’re listening to The Voice of Dog.
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This is Rob MacWolf your fellow traveler,
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and Today we present a poem
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by Alex T. Dragonson,
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who is building the world they want to live in one paragraph at a time,
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and you can find more of their stories in the Voice of Dog archive
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and on their worldbuilding blog.
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Read by Ta’kom Ironhoof,
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the Equine Charmer.
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Please enjoy “Distant, Quantifiable Victory”,
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a poem by Alex T. Dragonson
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As I look out from my familiar couch
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Through a new window,
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at new trees, in my once and
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future hometown I ask myself,
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could I have imagined
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Six weeks ago, when my mother texted me
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While I was waiting for my suitcase, coming not-really-home,
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if I had a plan to go back
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And before I had my bag,
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I had a plan Could I have known,
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eight months ago
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When I tried and tried to log in at my job
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and found out from a teammate's text
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that it was my job no longer
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Could I have foreseen,
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two years ago When I boarded that
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fateful flight to Follow my finances away
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From everything I loved,
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and swore I would return
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that I would return,
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and could, with no regret?
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I have been so long in coming to this place
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And yet no time at all.
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This was “Distant, Quantifiable Victory”
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by Alex T. Dragonson,
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read for you by Ta’kom Ironhoof, the Equine Charmer.
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This concludes Poetry Month.
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Our regular schedule resumes
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as of next week, with more stories, on the web at thevoice.dog or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Thank you for listening
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to The Voice of Dog.
