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The Kings & Queens of Norwalk · Vinnie Penn Poemcast

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Speaker 1: I took the merit to Norwalk. It had been maybe
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Speaker 1: twenty years, a Saturday night of fast talk, a Sunday
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Speaker 1: with ringing ears. Wall Street has been gentrified. It's a
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Speaker 1: stretch of carpe dium. There are parts where folks are
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Speaker 1: still petrified, but it's not like you can see them.
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Speaker 1: The girls wore fishnets under tattered jeans. The boys had
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Speaker 1: hearts for eyes, uncrowned kings for pretty queens who couldn't
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Speaker 1: help but paralyze. A hop and skip from Sono demures
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Speaker 1: as the historic downtown. A girl in a Beatle's T
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Speaker 1: shirt fit a boy for his crown, and for a
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Speaker 1: moment there was not a sound