(Too many of us find it easier to discredit or jettison excellence than to lift ourselves to its fit companionship, eh?)

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Recorded Reading (0:56): https://www.dropbox.com/s/4elvnp7m3brt166/The%20Most%20Corrosive%20Influence%20of%20All.mp3?dl=0

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The Most Corrosive Influence of All

What a pernicious thing is jealousy —
The most corrosive influence of all!
With what we have, we discontented be
Placing upon it little worth, withall,

Whilst envying another man his car,
His wife, his home, his job, his everything —
Gazing, not nearly round, but ever far
In wish that foreign fortune easement bring

To our own petty day to day concerns
Not crediting the other with the same,
Thinking fate’s visage favorably turns
Toward him, nor puts his high hopes in flame

Not understanding that oppressors be
Amongst the most unhappy that we see

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This poet is physically disabled. Public housing being insufficient to her medical and creative needs, she is presently living, in order to continue working, in her minivan, publishing all of her works using one thumb on the touch screen of her smartphone, surviving at an income of a fraction of her nation’s poverty level. She would treasure any donation you might care to offer ~ http://www.UgiftABLE.com ● #72D-31S.

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