[encore] 1464: Somewhere Else by Adam J. Gellings

The Slowdown is taking a break. We’ll be back soon with new episodes. This encore episode was originally released on February 25, 2026.

Today’s poem is Somewhere Else by Adam J. Gellings.

The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “I was born at 4:30 in the afternoon on a cold Sunday in February. All of this is either useless information — time of day, day of the week, month of the year — or it’s part of our own myth-making.”

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