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🗓️ 4 February 2019
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Welcome back to The Daily Poem! Today's poem (in honor of the New England Patriots winning the Super Bowl) is Robert Frost's "The Wood Pile."
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0:00.0 | Oh geez, Dad, not the car again. |
0:02.6 | Oh, happens all the time with old Betsy. |
0:04.6 | Have you checked out Carvana yet? |
0:06.3 | They have thousands of cars for under $20,000. |
0:09.3 | But did those thousands of cars have personality like old Betsy? |
0:12.6 | Betsy's held together by tape. |
0:14.6 | And there are raccoons living in the engine. |
0:16.1 | It's a family car. |
0:17.5 | There are flames on the hood? |
0:19.4 | A custom paint job. |
0:20.7 | No, Dad. |
0:21.3 | The car's on fire. |
0:22.5 | How many cars did you say Carvana had? |
0:24.2 | Visit Carvana.com to shop thousands of cars for under $20,000. |
0:28.1 | We'll drive you happy at Carvana. |
0:32.9 | Welcome back to the Daily Poem here on the Close Reeds Podcast Network. I'm David Kern. |
0:41.5 | In honor of the New England Patriots winning the Super Bowl last night, albeit in an ugly game, |
0:47.5 | I'm going to be reading a poem by the man who Harold Bloom called the archetypal New England poet. |
0:56.5 | And that, of course, is Robert Frost. |
1:04.1 | He was born in 1874 and died in 1963. He received four Pulitzer Prizes for poetry, was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, and was named Poet Laureate of Vermont in 1961. |
1:09.6 | You probably know him best for his famous poems like |
1:12.6 | stopping by wood on a snowy evening and the road not taken and perhaps mending wall or after apple |
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