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You Who Thirsts · Backward Mutters Poetry Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: You are listening to the Backward Mutters Poetry Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: Please visit online at backwardmutters.substack.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Randy Edmonds.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today's poem is a sonnet which is part character poem and part dialogue.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is based after the character Jill Pohl, who is found in C.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lewis's The Silver Chair, which is fourth in the Chronicles of Narnia series.
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  SPEAKER_00: The sonnet's initial inspiration comes from the following line from the beginning
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  SPEAKER_00: of that book,
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  SPEAKER_00: which reads,
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  SPEAKER_00: It was a dull autumn day,
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  SPEAKER_00: and Jill Pohl was crying behind the gym.
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  SPEAKER_00: She was crying because they had been bullying her.
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  SPEAKER_00: This poem is titled You Who Thirst.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dear child,
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  SPEAKER_00: come to me from your crying place Where you hide from giants,
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  SPEAKER_00: bullying brutes You,
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  SPEAKER_00: whose confidence masks another face Waxing white at the sound of their jackboots
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  SPEAKER_00: Dear daughter,
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  SPEAKER_00: you who thirsts but dares not drink The stream is yours,
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  SPEAKER_00: its water satisfies
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  SPEAKER_00: Yet your conditions, the safety you think keeps safe, finds water but leaves you to die.
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  SPEAKER_00: Eve's daughter, draw near.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't dare not to dare.
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  SPEAKER_00: Though I, the lion, have devoured kings of old, if you'll lose for me, you'll gain all that's fair.
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  SPEAKER_00: Keep all your silver and get all the gold.
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  SPEAKER_00: rightly fearing, making the first of me, you'll drink of joy, no love, be set free.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've been listening to the Backward Mudder's Poetry Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Randy Edwards.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for listening.