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Audio Poem of the Day

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B2Upper-intermediateOctober 16, 20261 min
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even without the chair and bear and the sisters in their astronomic presence of great space,

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pressure, having not mathematics my head bursts with anguish of not understanding.

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  • 111 words a minute: slow, clear speech.
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The poem I keep forgetting to write is about the stars, how I see them in their order, even without the chair and bear and the sisters in their astronomic presence of great space, and how beyond and behind my eyes they are moving, exploding to spirals under extremist pressure, having not mathematics my head bursts with anguish of not understanding.

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The poem I forget to write is bursting fragments of a tortured victim far from me in his galaxy of minds bent upon him in the oblivion of his headline status, crumpled and exploding as incomparable as a star. Yet present in its light I forget to write.

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