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  01:08

  POETRY Reading: Kind of Life, by Derr...

  POETRY Reading: Kind of Life, by Derr...

  Voice Over: Val Cole

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  POEM:

  On the streets,
  Paved in gold,
  Is where she roams.

  She’s waiting...
  Waiting to be.

  Into the arms,
  Of the cold,
  Lies an unknown home.

  A blissful place...
  That can never be.

  Forgotten thoughts,
  And memories,
  Of what could have been.

  Branches out...
  Like a bro...

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  04:07

  POETRY Reading: Ode to Melody, by Isa...

  POETRY Reading: Ode to Melody, by Isa...

  Poetry Reading by Val Cole

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  Let us sing, Muse, not of your treacled, honeyed lips,
  from which the murmurously buzzing poet drinks,
  launching a host strong some dozen-dozen ships
  only to cry ‘Calypso!’ at the last and in her deep eyes sink;
  nor of your distant sister, the pale Lady Memory,
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  01:22

  POETRY Reading: My Body Is a Time Bom...

  POETRY Reading: My Body Is a Time Bom...

  Poetry by Val Cole
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  POEM:

  you sometimes said.

  We knew about your aneurysm for the last
  twenty-five years, that bulge in your heart

  and chest that could swell with blood,
  and like a balloon, burst at any time,

  killing you in less than nine minutes, you explained.
  They told us it was inop...