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Sep 2024
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1200: Lying My Head Off by Cate Marvin

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Today’s poem is Lying My Head Off by Cate Marvin.


The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “One of the great feelings of aging is coming clean about my shortcomings. That honesty is an illuminating relief, because, as today’s surrealist poem suggests, the masks we take on eventually make us an imposter to ourselves.”


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