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Victims of The Joneses · Vinnie Penn Poemcast

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Speaker 1: We used to park in your car and talk about
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Speaker 1: the future. A gaping wound we ignored in need of
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Speaker 1: a suture because babies and breakfasts on a back deck
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Speaker 1: with a town green. Sobucolic was the dream We agreed
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Speaker 1: a small town where we'd frolic. We haven't picked out
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Speaker 1: the town. The sound of the nature we abhorded. The
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Speaker 1: Joneses defied nomenclature, but when push came to shove, the
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Speaker 1: shoving began a rousing chorus of You're not a man,
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Speaker 1: but I ad to the house on the street that
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Speaker 1: you chose. Suddenly you cared about the upturn of a
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Speaker 1: nose and the jones as they mattered even more than
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Speaker 1: the kids. Countless hours talking and dreaming, it all hit
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Speaker 1: the skids. You pedal infidelity as the cause, dojour because
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Speaker 1: that's more palatable than the truth. An epidemic for sure,