The Prompt: Your book is about to be recorded as an audiobook. If you could choose anyone to narrate it, who would it be?
She Reads Me!
When ever I go off to sleep
there is some company I keep.
No Teddy bear or other furry––
the thing I use to stave off worry
of that proverbial smoking gun–
the unkind deeds I might have done–
is a simple bedtime rite–
an audio book to stave off night.
Instead of wandering my mind,
mental ramblings of another kind
fill my thoughts before I slumber,
for fiction does less to encumber
my dreams with guilts of past misdeeds.
Entertainment rarely breeds
nightmares of a shocking sort.
The words of others just abort
somnambulant wanderings through the vast
savannas of my distant past.
So–short story long, if you’re the same––
using sleep to sort through blame
for all your guilty pleasures past,
and if you seek a way to cast
off all these worries of the night,
and choose my words to soothe your plight,
When I lay you down to sleep,
I hope I’m read by Meryl Streep.
Here’s what I wrote the first time I answered this prompt: https://judydykstrabrown.com/2014/09/11/3307/
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
You really don’t. Meryl is a dreadful narrator. Great actress, but it’s a different art form.
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Oh poop. But I’d have to come up with another ending–or another narrator that rhymes with “Now I lay me down to sleep.” So we’ll leave the lady be since it is fiction anyway!
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Meryl Streep will do great reading this poem.
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Fantastic 🙂
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A lot of thoughts to ponder here. Great read.
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This is outstanding. With a cover like that how could I ever put it back on the shelf?
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Very good. I was going to do this one but couldn’t decide between Tea Leoni and Diane Keaton…
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You could have them both…
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What? Not a fan?
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Yes… of both.
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Aha… I see what you thought I meant, but what I was saying is that many books have two narrators…one for one character and another for another..or for different stages of someone’s life. I didn’t mean I didn’t like them. Do you watch Madam Secretary? She’s great in that role. And I love Diane Keaton.
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