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“To the Last Memory of John and Syd” by Rob MacWolf (read by William Dingo)
23rd April 2026 • The Voice of Dog • Rob MacWolf and guests
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Today we present “To the Last Memory of John and Syd” a poem by Rob MacWolf, who read the Ballad of Reading Gaol one time and couldn’t help himself. You can find this, alongside other poems, in the collection The Wind Remembers, which you can get, alongside other books, from Bewere Books. And you can find more of his stories right here on the Voice of Dog.

Read by William Dingo, the Sunrise Spectator.

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nothing

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crime,
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dear

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news.
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else

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be?
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it’s

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to

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say

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my

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piece
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Syd

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and

show:

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show:

memory.
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remember,

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whatever

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may

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say,
John

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and

show:

Syd

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are

show:

free.

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preachers

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bound

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hell,
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me

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life

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entire,
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things
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them,
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never

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where,
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Syd

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he

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beast

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men,
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drawn.
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federals

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be

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soon,
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arrive

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may

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this,

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John.”

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to

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he’ll

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to

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jail
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but

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alive?”
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John, “but

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if

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we

show:

are

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separate,
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should

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I

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want

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to

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survive?
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to go

show:

down,

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beside

show:

him,

show:

when
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death,

show:

and

show:

dawn

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arrive.”

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we

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have

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run,”

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said

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Syd, “we

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run.
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concrete

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our

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course

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be

show:

set,
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show:

we’ll

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run

show:

it

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forever,

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wait

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and

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see.
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you

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won’t

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forget
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dawn

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raised

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voice
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last

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say:

vanished

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down

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an

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endless

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road
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say:

even

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sky.
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newspapers

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say

say:

they

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didn’t

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get

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far,
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newspapers

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out

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where

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the

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world

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is

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young,
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time’s doors

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are

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wide,
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the

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cyclones roar,

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and

say:

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petrichor
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the

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highwayside,
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journeying

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evermore
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John

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is

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at

say:

his

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side.

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out

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ever

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does

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back

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know

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they

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care

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not,
And

say:

even

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the

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day

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that’s

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the

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final

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day
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find

say:

them

say:

yet

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uncaught.

I

say:

know

say:

time’s

say:

door

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has

say:

shut

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too

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slow.
I

say:

know

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my

say:

dear

say:

friends

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live,
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somewhere

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out

say:

there

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dear

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gives.
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though

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it’s

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crime,

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drink

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with

say:

me

now:


To

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John,

now:

and

now:

his

now:

Dear

now:

Friend

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Syd.



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was “To

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