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Today's story concerns adult subject matter for mature listeners.
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If that's not your cup of tea,
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or there are youngsters listening,
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please skip this one
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and come back for another story another time.
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You’re listening to Pride Month on The Voice of Dog.
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Today we present a poem by Rob MacWolf, who saw a chance to out-do last year’s Pride Month
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and took it. You can find his work in collections from the Furry Historical Fiction Society,
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and you can find more of his poetry on
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his SoFurry gallery.
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Read by Solomon Harries,
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cuddly badger dad.
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For all that sexuality and identity matter to Pride,
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what matters more
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is that they unite us.
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It is not merely that I am proud of who I am,
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it is that we are proud of who we are.
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Therefore in the interest of uniting us,
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please understand:
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“If You Are Reading These They May Be About You”,
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a poem by Rob MacWolf
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Husbands beside me
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Breathe loud in the darkness
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Just before sunrise.
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I ought to sleep more,
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But all my dreams were passion
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And I am too roused.
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All my dreams have turned To smoldering near-erections And poems half-recalled.
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Poems to many friends Whom I wish to hold, naked,
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And talk about poems.
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To friends who are men
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And also wolves or foxes
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Or lions, in their souls.
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To friends who are bears,
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Who fight like hungry badgers,
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And who love like dogs.
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Poems of the passions That animals like us stoke
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For we're not yet dead.
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Poems of the feeling,
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Against my grateful muzzle,
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Of my god's chest fur.
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Poems that speak about The little gay rabbits.
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Prayers for their asses.
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For who will pray for The little gay rabbits,
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If not you and I?
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This was “If You Are Reading These They May Be About You”
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by Rob MacWolf, read for you by Solomon Harries,
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cuddly badger dad.
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Happy Pride, and Thank you for listening to The Voice of Dog.
