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Vexing Texting · Vinnie Penn Poemcast

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  I got a text the other day, but I'd made the contact go away,
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  so I didn't know who it was. They wrote, how you doing?
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  Check it in. I didn't even know where to begin, because I'd
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  come off the killer of the buzz. I scrubbed the contacts from my phone,
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  all the ones no longer known, all the ones no longer good to
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  me when life got hard, and it does get hard. They're the easiest
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  to discard because they were farther than the eye can see. So who was
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  this texting me now, saying hello, asking me how I'm doing? Right
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  on out of the blue. Someone maybe I judged too soon, someone who
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  changed their tune. There was really only one thing I could do. Texted
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  them, asking who is this joke? Ignorance isn't really bliss, felt silly?
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  I must confess. Then I thought better forget him, forget her.
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  I really just couldn't care less