[18+] “If You Are Reading These They May Be About You” by Rob MacWolf (read by Solomon)

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Today's story concerns adult subject matter for mature listeners.

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If that's not your cup of tea,

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or there are youngsters listening,

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please skip this one

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and come back for another story another time.

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You’re listening to Pride Month on The Voice of Dog.

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Today we present a poem by Rob MacWolf, who saw a chance to out-do last year’s Pride Month

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and took it. You can find his work in collections from the Furry Historical Fiction Society,

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and you can find more of his poetry on

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his SoFurry gallery.

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Read by Solomon Harries,

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cuddly badger dad.

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For all that sexuality and identity matter to Pride,

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what matters more

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is that they unite us.

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It is not merely that I am proud of who I am,

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it is that we are proud of who we are.

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Therefore in the interest of uniting us,

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please understand:

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“If You Are Reading These They May Be About You”,

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a poem by Rob MacWolf

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Husbands beside me

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Breathe loud in the darkness

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Just before sunrise.

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I ought to sleep more,

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But all my dreams were passion

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And I am too roused.

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All my dreams have turned To smoldering near-erections And poems half-recalled.

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Poems to many friends Whom I wish to hold, naked,

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And talk about poems.

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To friends who are men

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And also wolves or foxes

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Or lions, in their souls.

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To friends who are bears,

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Who fight like hungry badgers,

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And who love like dogs.

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Poems of the passions That animals like us stoke

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For we're not yet dead.

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Poems of the feeling,

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Against my grateful muzzle,

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Of my god's chest fur.

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Poems that speak about The little gay rabbits.

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Prayers for their asses.

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For who will pray for The little gay rabbits,

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If not you and I?

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This was “If You Are Reading These They May Be About You”

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by Rob MacWolf, read for you by Solomon Harries,

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cuddly badger dad.

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Happy Pride, and Thank you for listening to The Voice of Dog.