Latest / Vinnie Penn Poemcast / UK OK
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- 0:00My daughter says she's missing England, cohabitating and comingland, pub crawls and paper
- 0:08plates, fast friends and flat mates. We were the generation of home,
- 0:12sweet home. Our neighborhood had the streets to roam, ripe with opportunity and
- 0:18discovery, hideaways for flings and recovery, the generation of Mama, I'm coming
- 0:25home. We were a rabbit. We had the phone. But for her,
- 0:29it's all about the UK. She confided, No dubtam not okay.
- 0:34I say no, you're not. You're better than that. Every place,
- 0:38everywhere is a welcome mat. She gets skeptical. She thinks, I God,
- 0:43I tell her, you just came off the long and winding road.
- 0:47Sometimes she loves this, sometimes despised, lost and found and turned around by
- 0:53the fire in her eyes.