Latest / Vinnie Penn Poemcast / Thrown/Throne
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- 0:00Speaker 1: All right, I was buzzin' when I wrote this, Let's
- 0:02Speaker 1: see how it goes. I didn't see it coming. I'm
- 0:05Speaker 1: actually at a loss in retrospect. They were more music
- 0:09Speaker 1: than the bird's humming, yet didn't render me circumspect. I
- 0:13Speaker 1: used to chafe at the word obsession. I just no
- 0:16Speaker 1: one was doing what needed to be done. But all
- 0:18Speaker 1: these years later, confession I was obsessed, and I'd soon
- 0:22Speaker 1: learn it's no fun. But between the then and the now,
- 0:26Speaker 1: isn't that the most glorious place? I leaped the who
- 0:30Speaker 1: and the what, and the where and the how, all
- 0:33Speaker 1: with a smile on my face. These little people that
- 0:36Speaker 1: we mold, What fun, What an honor, such a thing,
- 0:40Speaker 1: such a sight to behold. I need no queen to
- 0:44Speaker 1: be a king. The letting go, though the agony you
- 0:48Speaker 1: can actually resent your own raising them got the best
- 0:52Speaker 1: of me. But it's my only rightful throne.