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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,
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and Today we present a poem
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by Taylor Fox, also known as Aaron Gerst, also known as Star Ringer,
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who hopes if you're interested in his art, you'll feel comfortable seeking it
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out. He'll be found at Star_Ringer
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on platforms including Twitter,
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Blue Sky, Fur Affinity,
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and SoFurry. Read by Yuugenshou,
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Wolf of Wanderlust.
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Please enjoy Destruction is a part of existence.
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I do not want to destroy my art.
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How could I? But I must.
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Concept must be cracked,
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shorn, broken, cut,
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and shattered, if it is ever to be in the same reality where I stand.
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I do not have, precisely,
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a worry that I will ruin it in translation.
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I know I will. An idea is pristine.
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An idea is perfect.
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But it must be realized.
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There is pain in creation,
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because it is also destruction.
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I've accepted imperfection.
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But what agony it is
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to subject perfection
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to the torture of realization.
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Please pardon my own imperfection,
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perfect little thought.
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If only you had come to someone better than I am.
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Someone with strength,
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resilience, and skill.
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But what misfortune,
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perfect little thought,
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that you would not be,
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except from my mind,
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and my mind alone.
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I shall do right by you.
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To be forgotten is a greater death than destruction.
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I promise to us both,
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to try. I shall destroy you,
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that you may be created.
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And if only one other being
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in all of creation experiences us
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and understands us,
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we will have succeeded.
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Forgive me. This was
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"And Then, There Is Destruction”,
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by Taylor Fox, read for you by Yuugenshou,
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Wolf of Wanderlust..
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Thank you for listening
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to The Voice of Dog.
