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Video Narration
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Description

Dramatic Poem

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

North American (General)

Transcript

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in the town of my childhood, little of note ever happened. So when the albino deer was found drowned in the slough, having been driven out to the punky ice by dogs, the game warden brought the dead beast to the school. I might have been seven or maybe six years old. I suppose we were made to line up, since that is how we were moved from place to place and were directed at the industrial doors to admire the animal sprawled in the back of a truck way gathered around it, its whiteness a world let of distinction, its eyes pink and drying in the prairie way were told we could touch it. And these many years since that March day, I can still see my hand pink and small, buried into the white for the bucks, neck crackling with static and coming to life with the electric surge that animates all things later but would be mounted and placed in a glass case in the bank, which is where the town kept things that were precious behind. Our teacher rendered the bluffs and oils with fussy hand of a miniaturised, but remains there today in perpetual imitation of itself.