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'Fishbones Dreaming' by Matthew Sweeney (poem only)
Poet Matthew Sweeney recites his poem 'Fishbones Dreaming' about a fish, now fishbones on a plate, dreaming about his previous life. The text is built around the repeated phrase 'He didn't like to be this way. He shut his eyes and dreamed back'.
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