The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Hearing The Voice of GOD: The Exciting life of a Poet by Ivery Savannah

Episode Date: April 15, 2026

Hearing The Voice of GOD: The Exciting life of a Poet by Ivery Savannah Iveryswordsofpoetry.com The purpose of this book is share with the world the story of a nine year old little girl who never felt like she fit anywhere in this world. She starts to write to express all that was being bottled up inside her with no one to share her inner most feelings and emotions. As she began writing for her grandmother, then she went on to writing in a diary like most young girls do. But as this young girl grew she started writing poetry. Poetry became her most talented gift of expression. It is truly exciting to be a poet, BUT it is more exciting to hear the voice of her Abba Father, creator, Lord and King. There are many conversations between the writer and God the Father and it is expressed in her poetry and in many of her testimonies. Put on your virtual glasses and take a ride in the Spirit as you read and experience “Hearing the Voice of God, The Exciting Life of a Poet”!!!!

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It is entitled, Hearing the Voice of God, the Exciting Life of a Poet. Ivory Savannah is on the show with us today. We're going to get into with her and find out some of her insights or experience of life and all that good stuff. She started writing at nine years old, writing for her Grandma Susie. Whenever she would get mail back home from Louisiana, she would respond for her and answer the letters that she received from families. she writes love letters in high school and sold them to girls at boyfriends. That's a mess. I do not have a boyfriend.

I did not have a boyfriend at the time to write to according to bio here. Welcome to the show. How are you, I agree. I'm fine, Chris. How are you? I am fine. You just made my day. That's one of the funniest things I've heard in a while in a bio.

I wrote love letters in high school and sold them to girls that had boyfriends. So that's true, evidently. Yes, I did. And in fact, it started out kind of crazy. We were preparing for a high school talent show. My cousin and two other ladies were coming over to my house. We had a little dance team that we were doing a little dance step. My cousin got there first.

She started rambling through my things, and she found this letter. And she read it and she begged me for it. Of course, I snatched it from her and told her, you know, stay out of my things. And she had some money. So she, you know, went to her purse. and she had about four or five bucks. And so I said, well, I gave her the letter and she gave me the money. She put her boyfriend's name at the top and hers at the bottom as if she wrote it.

And she came back and said that he loved it. I started writing for her, word got around, and I ended up writing for five girls, total. You mind if I ask what year this was? Are women, I guess now there's chat GPT that guys and girls I know are using. I know guys are using chat GPT to talk to women on text. This has been a long time ago. Okay. I've been out of high school, 55 years.

So did it continue outside of high school, or was it just? I've done it here and there for other people, you know, kind of secretly because... Sounds like a business we should get going on here. I'm working on it. I haven't got it all together yet, but I'm working on it. I think so, you know, because even, you know, women don't have a lot of game when it comes to dating. Men have game because, you know, we're used to approaching. We're used to rejection.

we're used to flinging it all out there, good, bad, and ugly sometimes, they're stupid. And, you know, women respond with, okay, and you're like, I need some more, but, you know, sometimes they're not interested, and that's kind of the signal. But that's really funny. I think that's just hilarious. So let's get into your book. Give us a, oh, we need the dot-coms for you, if we could, your plugs. Where do you want people to find you on the interwebs?

My book can be purchased at Ivory's Words of Poetry, and Ivory's spelled I-V-E-R-Y and W-O-R-D-S-O-R-D-S of Poetry.com. My email address is Awesome Ivory at Gmail.com. Hmm. And people should know you spell ivory very uniquely, I-V-E-R-Y. Yes. And uniqueness is awesome. So give us a 30,000 overview.

What's inside your book, hearing the voice of God? Well, I started writing, you know, at 9. And just the reason I wrote the book was because, Because writing has always been inside me. It's just always been a part of me. And I grew up in an era where children were seen and not heard. So for me to start writing was a voice for me. You know, I had four brothers.

I had four crazy brothers, okay? And in that process, I had to learn to survive. But a lot of times, I was just always in the background, you know, by myself. Whenever I was able, my mom would be there for me. She was my best friend. You didn't have any sisters, so mom was there for me. But it was just a lot of time by myself, you know, and I kind of learned to adapt, but writing was my voice.

It was my escape. It was my help me to, you know, be who I was, you know, kind of like talking to myself basically on paper. Ah, that's the end to what I do when I write books and stuff or just write stuff. I'm always talking to myself and myself goes. But this is interesting. Were you inspired by early poets? Was there any authors that inspired you to start writing at nine?

Or did it just kind of come to you? No, it was just a part of me. When I started writing for my grandmother, and that kind of instilled it, that kind of started the spark, you might say. But over the years, Maya Angelou was my favorite. Oh, really? Yes.

And I've all, you know, poetry has just been something I've always enjoyed. There have been others here and there. You know, I've written for a special occasion. I can write your life story in a poetic form. So that's one of the things that I do that I offer. Ah. Now, so in this book, how does this, what is the title about, hearing the voice of God and the exciting life of poets? This is a memoir of you then? Yes, it's basically my life story and the many testimonies of me hearing God's voice.

And one of the one thing that I think people would find amazing in the book, and I think it was one of the craziest things that God had ever asked me to do. It was when Sunday I'm sitting in church, and it was like strategically I was sitting right in the middle of the sanctuary, you know, focusing on the message and the pastor. And I heard the voice of God say, write Rock Hudson a letter. Really? Yes. And I was like, flabbergast, it's done, whatever you want to call it. And I was so, like, caught off guard with that. I turned around and I looked at the person behind me like, did you hear that? But I got a frown instead of, you know, any type of, so I turned around and I pondered that for a day or two, right, Rock, Hans, and

letter. It kept going over and over in my head. So I finally said, okay, Lord, what do you want me to tell him? He said, tell him I love him. So I said, I could do that, you know. And at the time, I was working for the district attorney's office in the child support division. And we had a whole wall of nothing but phone books so we could find all these deadbeat dads all of the country. And so I, when I did write the letter and I didn't have a computer at the time, I didn't have a typewriter. I had a typewriter, but it wasn't working. I wrote the letter on yellow legal pad paper. And then at the time, my pastor had written a book called Healing is the children's bread. So when I wrote the letter, I had decided to put the book inside and I said, Lord, where

do I send the letter? And he said to me, he said, silly, the man is at UCLA hospital, send it there. And I did. Oh, wow. And Rock Hudson signed for it. Wow. That is awesome. Did you, were there any further experiences with Rock Hood? The only other experience was that I got a letter back from Elizabeth Taylor saying, thank you for writing, but send money to the AIDS Foundation. Oh, isn't that wonderful? Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Liz Taylor was really something. too. I grew up in the same area you did with all those wonderful black and white stars and

the early Hollywood and some of the greatest movies made of all time back then. Seems like they just copy everything and regurgitate it now and recycle it. That's exactly what's happening. Doesn't it seem that way? It's crazy. Now, you talk about your life as a poet

and have you written a lot of poetry or there are other books maybe that you have or have you been just working on your own with stuff? This is my first book of publishing, but it has a lot of poetry in it. Different occasions where, like for instance, once I was, one of my prayer partners and I were, did a little prayer session in the morning, and she said, oh, by the way, I put you on program to write a poem for a Christmas program. And I said, oh, really, you just do stuff like that. You put me on program and don't even ask. And so she said,

yeah. And so I said, how many days do I have? I don't, you know, my brain isn't functioning in that capacity at the moment. So she told me the theme. I said, yeah, give me a theme or something. She said, the theme is following the star. At that moment, after she said following the star, the Lord spoke to me. He said, the world sees Christmas as though Christ missed us, you know, Christmas. And you know, they've been trying to take Christ out of Christmas and say X-mas. And anyway, the voice I heard said, it's not Christmas. It's Christ's. He said Jesus had to come. And from there, I got the story of following the star.

And you've never read the book, right? No. So do you want to hear the poem? Sure. If it's not too long, because sometimes it'll kind of create dead air if it's too long. Okay. If we can short through it. I don't know if I can shorten it, but.

Because really a podcast is about conversation back and forward. Right. Yeah. If we just straight read, it will. Right. It's in the book. It's in the book. Okay.

And we want people to buy the book anyway. And so is that one of your favorite poems or? It's one of many. You know, I have a few favorites. And another instance, I was going to a Mother's Day luncheon and a friend invited me. So I said, Lord, what do I say about mothers that hasn't already been said? And he asked me a question. He said, what was the Holy Spirit said, what was in the mind of God when he created

woman? But from that, I wrote a poem relating to a tribute to the mother of mothers. and to womanhood. And it was about Eve. Ah. The original mother, as it were. Yes. According to the Bible. Yeah. She, you know, without, I guess we're all related technically from her. Yes.

I wonder if she has anything in the will for me. She might. I'll have to check. I'll check with my attorneys. You wrote that. And then how many poems would you say are in this book or is there a count on them? I didn't count them to have an exact number, but I said. I think probably 20, 25. Wow. And why is poems like a favorite format for you?

Why do you think that's, you know, an axiom that really works good for you? Poetry, you know, it has a story. It's a storyline. And I've become good at telling stories. And to tell stories in a poetic form, it seems to be something that people can relate to and that they really, really enjoy. I've had one of the ladies from my church, she's read my book three times. And she said each time she's gotten something. different out of it. But I received nothing but just fantastic reviews from the book.

That's awesome. You know, you're going to go ahead. I'm sorry. Okay. You know, you're right. It's, you know, poems have a really kind of limited sort of or contained maybe might be a good word. Sort of way of presenting themselves and telling a story. I mean, it's a, it's a story, just like a short story or like a long story. But, you know, there's kind of a format to it, kind of like haikus and stuff, right? There's, you know, and how you do it. And in many times, you know, like, I used to, when I was a kid, I used to love short stories. And I was always amazed how authors could tell a story in such a small format. I was even more amazed when Vine, the app did it.

You had six seconds on Vine to tell a story. And I was like, this is stupid. This is only six seconds. How the hell can you tell anybody's story six seconds? But visually, they figured out of way. And so the great thing about poems is they have that same sort of power, wouldn't you say? Yes, thank you very much. Yes.

And sometimes a great story is one that just gets right to the point, maybe gives you a, what do they call them a hook or, you know, some sort of tease that makes you go, I got to read the rest of this to find out how it turns out. And poetry has to have a flow to it. You know, it's, there's many different forms of poetry, but the poems that I write are pretty lyrky, you know, and they flow, you know. And that's kind of what keeps the attention of the reader. It has to flow. And are they usually, I don't know, what's a good example of like poetry, like song lyrics? Are they usually short like that? Or do they run several pages or?

No, no. Usually if I'm writing a poem about your life story, I have to keep it in one page. Otherwise, it gets, it doesn't, it kind of gets out of sort. Yeah. It turns into a book, maybe. Yeah, a mini novel. But as long as I can keep it on one page, everything full of. and it always turns out great.

There you go. And so you've been writing these, all these decades and staying in touch to people. And does it pay better than writing love letters for other people? You know, if I had been consistent, I would say yes. But I've given away a lot of poems, you know, for birthdays, anniversaries, and that kind of thing. So instead of me going and buying a card for you, I'd write your own personal card. Oh. You know, I love that.

I don't know. Have you seen the guys who they'll be on the story? streets with the other street vendors and they'll have like an old time typewriter there and they make poems for people. Have you heard or seen those people? Well, someone mentioned that to me not too long ago, but I personally haven't seen it myself. Yeah. In fact, I did some photography with one guy. I was very interesting what he did. And we had someone on the show years and years ago, I think before COVID. And he was a poet that would, he carried around this old typewriter, you know, the old and and and and he would write custom poems for people he met and ask for a tip or donation

to write them and he'd size them up a little bit and he was so popular with doing it they invited him on i believe the amtrak or the union pacific railroads to basically ride the cars throughout america and and do poems for people wow in them on the thing and i was like wow this is really amazing and you know we got talking about the technology uses which is the old world sort of you know typewriters and stuff and he had a collection of them and it was a really great story and then last year when i was doing photography downtown street photography i came across this guy and he had a little table on the corner you know and there was a guy across street playing the playing some guitar with a speaker for money and there you know there's the usual panhandlers there that you know sometimes they have food

and stuff. And so he was just there at a desk and he had this old typewriter and he would write custom poems for people like 10, 20, 15 bucks, 25. You get like a custom poem written just for you. And, you know, he would size you up, ask you a few questions and then he would put down his impression of you, which imagine after time you get pretty good. And, you know, you pay him like 10, 20 bucks and he would make a little poem and he put, he had a bunch of stickers you could choose for him. It was a full feature program. It's pretty cool. But you would come away with this poem. And there was something, there was a richness there of cherishment. I still have it. And he wrote this beautiful poem. I had my dog with me. And he wrote this beautiful poem about my dog. And it was just beautiful.

And it was something that I've really treasured and kept in a safe place. Because to me, the personality of someone writing me a personal poem was just, it just felt great. And so that I guess there's guys all over that do this now. Right. Yeah. And see, the thing is, when I do birthday poems, anniversary poems, or whatever, I do frame them, you know, as a keepsake. And I call them my framed cards. I love it. I mean, the personality of it and stuff. And it's really funny to see them type on this

old typewriter, you know, the ones that I saw growing up, and I used to have to type on those, too, when I went through typewriting class, you know? And they weighed, like, 500 pounds, made of pure steel and probably uranium, and whatever else glowed in the dark. Back then, plutonium. Why is the keys glowing? You can see them in the dark.

Oh, that's the, that's the plutonium going. There, uranium or something. I don't know. Got to love radiation. It's great. I soak some up every day from the sun. Yeah. I mean, if you ever get slow on business, there's, you know, you can work the street

quarters, I guess. I don't know if you want to do that. It's a bit windy up there. I get a little ideas. I'm trying to get into action, too. But I love how you make these personal poems. and hopefully those people cherish them and realize the beauty. And they're almost, you know, people write me all sorts of stuff and DMs and texts and emails and stuff.

Oh, Chris, you're great. Okay, great. You know, 50,000 people told me I'm great. Okay. I'm not sure I'm really great. But if, you know, you're inspired and you like it, okay, I appreciate that. I'm honored, you know, then I get the emails that call me for their expletives. So there's that too.

But it's part of being online and having eyes. But the beauty of the person personification, their personality or the personal nature of touch of it, I guess is what I'm trying to say. That's the value of it, you know. And you hear something that isn't just, hey, you're awesome. You know, it's something that's more intricate and detailed to and applicable to your one's self, I guess, whoever the person is. When I do something personal for someone, I do add specific things like, you know, if you, you, know, if you were born in the springtime, you know, I could start it off with, you know, on that specific day, you know, birds were singing and, you know, something lively that would go into your birth. And even, you know, I put the parents name in there and how many siblings or where you were in the lineup just to make it really, really personal.

Oh. And that just has so much more value, you know. I don't mind somebody telling me, I'm awesome. I have a narcissistic ego that needs to be fed a little bit. But, you know, I prefer cash, though, folks. Just, you know, you can buy me a coffee anytime you want. But, yeah, it's just really personal. And so what was the poem that made you want to finally write this down

after so many years of doing it? The specific poem? Was it a specific poem that triggered it? No, it's just the fact that I enjoy writing. But the purpose of the book is to, There are a lot of people who don't understand what it means to have a personal relationship with God and to really hear God's voice for themselves. So the many testimonies that I have in the book, some were good, some were not so good. There's a part where it says that the not so pleasant voice of God where I got scolded by God.

Oh, really? Yes. Tell us about that. Give us some more details on. All right. Do you block you on Facebook or something? What do you do? Not quite, but if I could have found a hole to crawl in, I would have.

But this was a situation where my sister-in-all had moved in with me and my husband after her husband passed away. And in the process of her living with us, my husband moved out and left her with me, her and a dog. And she went to the bank to let them know that her husband had passed away. She found out that there was a $10,000 policy. connected to their bank account. So at the time, I was working a temp job and I borrowed money. I took a day off without pay to take her back to Las Vegas to get her the death certificate and then take it to the bank so that they could work the, you know, the insurance part of it for her. And on the way to Vegas, we stopped to get something to drink and go to the bathroom, you know,

coffee and donuts because we left really, really early in the morning. And when I got back in the car, the Lord began to speak to me. And he said to me, he said, you act like you are her man, like you're supposed to take care of her. Who asked you? You know, he said, I know your intentions were good, but you didn't ask, you know?

And at that, it's like I'd never had heard or felt any type of a scolding from him, you know, in that sense. And I had her and a couple other people in the backseat, and they saw me begin to cry. and they were wondering what's wrong. And I just held my hand up and say, hey, you know, just leave me along. And on the way there, you know, he was telling me that I was out of line and that he wanted

her to call on him and not me. Oh. There's scripture that says in all that ways acknowledge him. And I didn't. I didn't ask. I just did it, you know, thinking that I was doing a good thing. And so that was a lesson that I'll never forget. You know, but at the time.

If I could have found a hole to drive that car into, I wouldn't. You know how you want to hide? I wanted to hide. Yeah. Yeah. You know, that'll, I don't do it, especially if you piss off God. He's got a bit of a temper, too, from what I saw in the First Testament, the first, what do they call that? The first book of the first section of the Bible, the Old Testament.

The Old Testament. He seems to clean up his act, maybe he's seen a therapist or something in the second part of the book, the New Testament. Yeah, that's that. It's interesting how this book came about, some of the motivators. So does God keep pushing you to write more stuff and do more things, or worry out with that? Yeah, I have a bunch of ideas still inside. You know, I'm still working eight hours a day. So at my age is, I don't have the energies that I used to have. But yeah, I still write. I still do personal things for people. I do want to get out to do more personal and I have some ideas of getting back into the personal letter writing, you know, it doesn't have to be, you know, like sometimes when I was a kid

and like I said, growing up in the era where you were seen and not heard, sometimes I would want my parents to know what was going on inside, you know, and I would write my parents a letter. So I want to be able to do that. I want to be that voice for kids, for teenagers, for, you know, people who want to say something, but they don't know how to say it. To a husband, you know, who wants to write something to his wife, to a wife who wants to write something to a husband. You know, the letter writing in high school is what prompted me to want to be able to do that for a lot of people. What a talent to have. I remember so I started writing poems in, I think it's fourth grade and I would read them to the class.

I still have one of them. I would type them too. An old typewriter. I miss the days of, I don't miss the days. I'm doing a joke, I guess. I don't miss the days of, what was that stuff they used to have, white out.

Remember that? Right. Oh, I do. Type right. And now they have it in a tape. Yeah. Now, yeah, you put it up there. And I remember there are sometimes where I wrote stuff and made so many errors and miss spells

and whatever. and I mean, the page would be like five pounds of that white, pasty stuff on it. Maybe I should learn a spell. That might be good. Or type for that matter. But yeah, typing was one of the most important things I ever learned in school. It was the most important thing when it came to ROI and return on investment. So what would you tell other burgeoning or potential poets?

What advice would you give them on how to develop their craft and talent and skill in that merit? Today, things are so much easier because you have a lot of things online that you can go to. I'm just really hearing about GPT chat. You can ask that. And it's just like Google, you know, because believe it or not, when I graduated high school 56 years ago, I went right into computer school. I was the only female to graduate with a bunch of Japanese men in Los Angeles. And my 12-year-old today probably knows more about computers than I do. my 12-year-old granddaughter.

Yeah. And, you know, we went to the store one night, and I'm trying to find an adapter for my cricket machine. And she said, Grandma, why don't you just Google it? So, you know, it's so much that people can do nowadays of learning how to put their skill out there just by Googling it, you know, what they want, asking questions online. And it really is a lot of inexpensive, a lot more inexpensive, and a lot of different ways of getting it out there because for me, you know, you have to pay for everything. But now it's not like that. Yeah. You do have to pay too for chat GPT. It's kind of getting expensive there so it became

popular. But no, even with chat GPT, it does help spark some creativity. You know, I'll use chat GPD for ideas or creativity. I'll only with understanding this concept maybe or something like that. And while some people, you know, kind of are concerned that maybe it leans a little too much and takes away our creativity. I find it kind of spurs mine, especially where I can do art. Now, if I want to say, hey, I want a banner for the show or I want a picture for this, maybe a group or something I'm promoted, give me a piece of art piece on that. And then I'll see it and I'll do it. I think we should change that, change that. And it really becomes like a partner in doing stuff. So I really like it from that. Does God speak to you about anything funny? Is he a jokester? Is he into

comedy? Yeah, he is. I hope he is because he's doing a great job. One of the funniest thing that conversation I had out, you know, I was working for a Superior Court at the time and got home from work. And my oldest was in college. My youngest was just three years old. So he's home on the floor after I had dinner. And he's home on the floor. He played by himself very well.

He was very unusual child, you know, very easy. Always happy. He was sit on the floor and play with himself, play with the toys. by himself and sing to himself. And here I am sitting there watching TV. And I wanted some adult conversation, you know, just wishing the phone would ring so I could talk to somebody. And the Lord asked me a question. He said, Ivory, who has your phone number?

And when I thought about it, I started to laugh. And when I thought about it, I said, wow, nobody has my phone number. Did you get a new phone number? you moved to a new place maybe? No, it's just that I hadn't thought about giving my phone number to anybody. So, and so when I said, Lord, nobody has my phone number. He said, ivory, nobody's going to call. That's true. It's a little hard to, I mean, I don't know. The only people who call me these days is I get about 20 spam, scam, spam calls a day. So somebody's got my phone number, but it's not the right people, obviously. So what that helped me do is not just sit around idly.

I just started writing more. you know it's it's sometimes that's the best way to do it you know sometimes i spend too much time talking to people about stuff instead of doing things i'm right it's easy to waste time yeah i have that bad ADHD really bad and so squirrel you know i can i can be working on one project and 50 projects later none of them are done and they're all just started and then i'm like what was the original thing i started with yeah it's kind of got lost in the in the in the shuffle, huh? It does, but it's a great thing where you can master it and write it, sometimes it's out of control. And do you have any future plans related to writing? Any other books in the

making? Any other thing that maybe you're working on that should come out? Yes, I have an idea, like I said, about the letter writing, and I'm in the process of getting some legal things handle with that, because once I go online with it, I'll have a new website just for that, you know, and it's going to be called random thoughts of love. Ah, random thoughts of love. That's a great, that's a great title. So, yeah, that'll be fortunate. You know, I imagine you probably,

you probably have lots of poems in your repertoire that you've written that maybe still need to see the light of day, right? Oh, yeah, I do. I didn't publish all that I've written, you know, because number one, I'm the kind of person that if it doesn't hold my interest, I won't finish it, you know, and I believe that everybody's that way. it doesn't hold your interest, they're not going to read it. And I've had one one or two people,

one of my friends said that when he got the book, he started reading and he couldn't put it down and he read the whole book right away. And he said he really enjoyed it. So that's the kind of story I want. And for me, that's what it has to be because something really long and drawn out, you put it down and you think about it sometimes and you won't go back and pick it up. So I want to keep them short and sweet just to keep the interest of my readers. up, you know? As we go out, give us your final thoughts. Anything we may have missed that I should should ask you about. Do you do any readings for people publicly? Like sometimes people will hire people that come read or libraries, stuff like that. I've done that for birthdays, anniversary

parties, you know, where people have, I've written poems and then gone and read them, you know, for the party or whatever. And I really, really enjoy that, you know. It's helped me out a lot to, you know, for people to know exactly how I do things. But the one thing I think is important because of the book is, like I said earlier, is for people to realize how God talks to ordinary people. He's interested in what you're interested in, and he's just there, you know. It makes me think about what it must have been like with Adam and Eve and walking with God in the cool of the day in the garden, you know. It's a personal thing.

And for me, when I was first got the book published, I'm ripping and running and doing all sorts of things. And like one evening, I just went in my prayer closet to pray. And as soon as I went in and closed the door and sat down, it's like he just hugged me. He was waiting for me. You know, I got that warm embrace. And it was just an amazing feeling. You know, so a personal relationship with God can be so rewarding. And I just pray that people would take time to get to know him.

and get to have that one-on-one with him. There's nothing better. Yeah, nothing better at all. You know, that's wonderful. And did you say you have a prayer closet? I do. And is that a normal thing in your religion, or did you set that up as an effective way to do that?

The Bible speaks about having a closet. Okay. Going in, close a door, and begin to pray. I've had one for quite some time. Wow. And it's probably a way to give you. some isolation from noise and everything else and stuff like that. Yeah, drive your line in from the noise of the world.

Yeah. That must be where Tom Cruise and John DeVolter are. They're in their prayer closet because they certainly haven't come out of the closet yet, but we're waiting. That's a joke about something else, folks. There's a South Park show about that. You can go watch it, but yeah. So give us your dot-coms, website's emails, where we want people to find you.

on the interwebs to get to know you better. My email for the book to purchase the book is Ivory's Words of Poetry.com. And Ivory is spelled I-V-E-R-Y-W-O-R-D-S-O-R-D-S-O-R-D-E-R-E-O-D-E-R-E-O-R-E. Make sure you make that donation. I don't know. I'm just making a word, folks, at this point. It's a poetic license, right? Isn't that what they say?

People always correct me sometimes when I make up shit and they go, I go, it's poetic license. You get away with murder practically. They can't get away with murder. The judge says I can't do that anymore. Poetic license doesn't count as a defense, evidently. But, you know, there's still time. Thank you very much, I for coming to the show.

We really appreciate it. All right, Chris. I really appreciate you having me on the show. Thank you. Thanks for tuning in. Or up her book, wherever. books are sold. Hearing the voice of God, the exciting life of a poet out October 23rd, 2024 by Ivory Savannah. Thanks for tuning in. Go to Goodreads.com, Fortress Chris Foss.

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Great show.