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A Dream About My Mother · Vinnie Penn Poemcast

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  Speaker 1: Last night, I dreamt my mom had something to tell
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  Speaker 1: me that she was planning to when the time was right.
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  Speaker 1: But cancer doesn't care about timing it. Laughs at the
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  Speaker 1: raging against the dying of the light, but that's just me.
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  Speaker 1: I understand. We can't agree. Nothing ever goes as plan.
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  Speaker 1: But back to the dream and something important. She wasn't
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  Speaker 1: in it at all. She never is, and it's been
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  Speaker 1: almost twenty years. My memory is just something for time
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  Speaker 1: to maul. I was trying to find her, to find
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  Speaker 1: out this secret, looking for her everywhere, getting close, getting close,
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  Speaker 1: you know how it goes. But in every room I went,
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  Speaker 1: she wasn't there. I woke up in a big bed
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  Speaker 1: and glanced out my open window, all alone except for
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  Speaker 1: an unseen bumblebees buzz. Last night, I dreamt my mom
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  Speaker 1: had something to tell me, and in that moment I
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  Speaker 1: knew exactly what it was.