893: To the Friend Who Is Crying on the Phone
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Today\\u2019s poem is To the Friend Who Is Crying on the Phone by Vanessa Ang\\xe9lica Villarreal.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest host Jason Schneiderman writes\\u2026 \\u201cIn today\\u2019s poem, the poet looks at what it means for things to change\\u2014what it means to live in the present and to plan for the future\\u2014and how painful and destabilizing it can be when what we expected, planned for, worked for, and dreamed of\\u2014is suddenly taken away.\\u201d
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