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I'm Major Jackson and this is the slowdown.

One of the funniest conversations of late wit friends is

who among us has a steady internal dialogue going on inside their heads.

Like a non-stop podcast and who does not?

I never hear myself think or have an inner conversation

save for the occasional moment when I must quickly decide between

unleaded or super unleaded between almond or 2% milk.

This probably makes you wonder how am I writing this episode

if I do not hear the words before I type them.

Good question.

Apparently, I am among those humans whose dorsal pathways as a child

never mature to allow for inner voice to develop.

And yet, so much of writing poetry involves listening to the deepest language within us.

When I write a poem, my inner radio clicks on.

I fabricate a conversation with myself.

It requires hearing my past and the present.

A poem's unspooling says the Irish bard William Butler Yates.

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