Sweethearts
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Sweethearts

B2Upper-intermediateNovember 8, 20261 min
  • One speaker
  • Relationships & psychology

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This is my poem, Sweethearts.

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an unfamiliar foyer.

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  • 57% of the words are B1 or easier.
  • 116 words a minute: slow, clear speech.
  • 3 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.

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Hello, my name is C.L. Odell, and I'm recording from Sammamish, Washington. This is my poem, Sweethearts. One day, either you or me, as if drugged, will be staring at a collage of photos in an unfamiliar foyer.

0:22

The other sleeping in the next room over, inside a shiny box like a saw-in-half trick, everyone seated in rows is waiting for something to happen. I know I'll be stuck in that first room where old friends who knew you briefly but remember your smile will hang out away from family. I'll be there almost out the door alone waiting

0:51

as if for you to come out of the bathroom so we could stand again like we did our entire lives together in the darkest corners, making dirty jokes not knowing what to say to sadness. Eager to leave when nobody's looking out across a silver parking lot like geese breaking off a lake.

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