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The Children of Alcoholics (a poem)

“I think that’s what the purpose of poems is, to step outside of easy and polite conversation, and sometimes to say something ... that begins in shock but afterwards ends in intimacy.”
On the latest episode of the podcast Words Lightly Spoken, Pat Boran considers the “emotional truth” of poetry before reading his recent poem ‘The Children of Alcoholics’.
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