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You’re listening to Poetry Month on The Voice of Dog.
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This is Rob MacWolf
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your fellow traveler, and Today
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we present a poem
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by Sky McKinnon,
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who won 2nd place in quarter 2 of L.
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Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the future.
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Their short story
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“The Edge of Where My Light is Cast”
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will be published May 7th, 2024,
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and is available for preorder on Amazon
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as well as an upcoming story
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“Meet Cute” in Thurston Howl’s “Night of the Howling Dead,”
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expected later this year.
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For more information, you can follow Sky on
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bluesky. Please enjoy
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“The Labyrinth”, a poem by Sky McKinnon
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In the middle of a city is a cage.
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You aren't thrown in,
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you're born without being issued habeus corpus,
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without being read your rights.
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You're a monster. You know that
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because that's what they call you.
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That's what's written on the wall.
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It's written in your blood.
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When you grow so big that the bars can't hold you any more, you think you're free
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but there are walls everywhere.
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Your life is made up of cells
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from the crib in your mom's apartment
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to the brick red radio crooning and
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slices of the galaxy.
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Even your body is made up of little prison blocks,
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little beasts putting in hard time
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to get you out of bed in the morning.
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You get up and walk with your right hand
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on the wall, you should be getting somewhere
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but you keep circling steel giants
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and only their mirrors can hold the big blue sky.
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This planet has a hold on you.
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Gravity keeps pulling you in
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and you hope it's for a loving embrace.
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Mother nature loves her monsters.
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She's got a picture of a minotaur inside her purse.
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She's got a picture of you.
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And even though she tells you to be good,
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she knows a hero
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will knock on your door,
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and she prays for you to break his bones.
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This was “The Labyrinth”
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by Sky McKinnon,
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read for you by READER, with CALLSIGN.
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Thank you for listening
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to The Voice of Dog.
