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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 Æ et al., a poet composed of several dragons in a trench coat.
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Please enjoy “Kintsugi”,
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a poem by Æ et al.
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1. the vessel broke upon the wheel
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hands too rough on earth so soft
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it went into the fire
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regardless a spirit
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seeped out from the cracks
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gnashing teeth, lashing tail,
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undirected further cracking
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its porcelain shell
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2. a dragon coalesced from the smoke and begun hoarding the shards,
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first as a pile and then replacing scales
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one by one, shielding raw earth always new stress fractures, new weld joints
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of molten gold between porcelain scales
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3. what a novel concept –
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to celebrate signs of failure
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aren’t you made of tougher stuff?
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you’re of the same earth, the same fire
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so what did you do that wasn’t enough?
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4. clumsy claws shiny scales
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rebuilding itself
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coiling ‘round broken jar
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a facsimile of the original design
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This was “kintsugi”
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by Æ et al., read for you by Rob MacWolf,
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Werewolf Hitchhiker.
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Thank you for listening to The Voice
