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Failed Phoenix · Vinnie Penn Poemcast

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  Speaker 1: I'm getting a buzz at Longhorn, and nothing about it
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: has me torn. Looking at a wedding photo of an
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  Speaker 1: old love, remembering how she fit me just like a
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: glove had a paperback by Orwell. It broke my fall
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  Speaker 1: When I fell on the subject of love. He was moot.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I feel so dirty when they start talking cute.
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  Speaker 1: My heart was never built for what was to come.
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  Speaker 1: Caused me ma to make herself numb. Failed as a husband,
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  Speaker 1: failed as a son, failed before the failing had begun.
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  Speaker 1: You want me to talk about ashes and rising from them,
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  Speaker 1: my masturbatory phoenix? Malarkey, you all find such a gem.
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  Speaker 1: I'm no phoenix. There is no rebirth. We are who
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  Speaker 1: we are. We're worth what we're worth.