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Dear Savannah · Vinnie Penn Poemcast

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  Speaker 1: Dear Savannah, What tricks your mind must play the passing
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  Speaker 1: of another day. The folks who say there's no such
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  Speaker 1: thing as closure have nothing on you. A finite ending
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  Speaker 1: is something that they knew. Your mom's been gone all
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  Speaker 1: of February, last seen January thirty one. No proof of life,
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  Speaker 1: no proof of death, a constant state of holding your breath.
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  Speaker 1: The stories you must be replaying in your head, the
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  Speaker 1: constant loop, the ones you reported with happy endings, the
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  Speaker 1: ones that ended tragic. The former your specialty, the former
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  Speaker 1: your magic, but you became the story. You swapped the
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  Speaker 1: glory with no say in the matter. The scenarios you
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  Speaker 1: must play out, another constant loop, the hotline with another
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  Speaker 1: phony scoop. Because the world drill closer and closer to madness.
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  Speaker 1: There are those who rewind on your sadness. Your mom
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  Speaker 1: is eighty four. I hope she comes through the door,
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  Speaker 1: you see her once more. I'm in all of your tenacity,
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  Speaker 1: in all of your fight, you deciding that there will
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  Speaker 1: be Pima County daylight