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The Muse of Ocean Springs, Mississippi
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who get lost when they ride with other people. They can't concentrate or concentrate too long
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They're stuck in limbo with no clue whether or not until a buddy says,
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B2 · Upper-intermediate
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- 124 words a minute: slow, clear speech.
- 10 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.
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Hi, I'm Rodney Jones, recording from New Orleans. This is my poem, The Muse of Ocean Springs, Mississippi. People who are like waves rising and falling, they imitate each other, people who get lost when they ride with other people. They can't concentrate or concentrate too long on this ad of a cowgirl fading into the concrete blocks of a standing wall. It freezes them.
They're stuck in limbo with no clue whether or not until a buddy says, hey, they always have a buddy going, hey, hey. Trouble being he's a wave too with no idea where he's headed. My goddess Felicity says this on our Tuesday morning drive to Dunkin' donuts like it's coming to her all at once but when she sees the furrow above
my eyes says no you silly man not you anyway people like that the wave people they're swell most wouldn't hurt leukemia only they need blankies like their mama's cut the feed too soon and she knows she says she's worked with scads of points like that. There are good things about them. They don't mind in the least if you
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