Hi friends, before we dive into today's episode, I want to encourage you to check out our

Kids Poetry Special on the Slowdown.

We made five fabulous episodes featuring cool young poets, word games, and awesome conversation

with award-winning author and host, Major Jackson.

The episode started on May 8th and ran until May 12th, and you can find them by searching

for the Slowdown wherever you get your podcasts.

We had a blast learning from kids who write, rhyme, and sing about their lives, and we think

you will too.

Again, search for the Slowdown wherever you listen to podcasts.

You're listening to Brains on where we're serious about being curious.

In the beginning, there was only bog and bog and bog and bog and bog.

There were no people, there were no fish, there were no birds or beasts or mountains or

forest or sky.

The bog was everything, and everything was the bog.

But the bog was only.

It wanted eyes with which to see the world, it wanted a strong back with which to carry

itself from place to place to place.

It wanted legs to walk and hands to touch and a mouth that could sing.

And so the bog created a body, a great beast that walked out of the bog on its own strong

boggy legs.

And the beast was the bog and the bog was the beast and the beast loved the bog and the

bog loved the beast just as a person loves the image of himself in a quiet pond of water

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