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Recorded Reading (1:21): https://www.dropbox.com/s/jm9qetotpvq71m5/She%27s%20UpShe%27s%20Down%20She%27s%20Back%20UpAgain.mp3?dl=0

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She’s Up! She’s Down! She’s Up Again!

Lay-deez and gentlemen!
The audience is live this evening!
A thrill of excitement
Can be felt and smelt
In the very air of this room

Oooooh, some
Of us are gonna get
Wiggly laid to-night!

(Do they let us
Say that on TV?
Dunno —
They just did!
Haha!!)

The opponents
Squaring off now

In one corner
Entropy
Rears its ugly
Head…

‘Nuff said.

In the other
Our, ah — Heroine —

Is she really gonna
Try to
Fight
In that outfit?

Naaaaah.

OMG, laydeez
She actually is!…

What we wanna know is
Howz she doing it?

Not even a paper cut
Not a rip, not a damn
Wrinkle

What’s that about?

Walkin’
All over it in ‘er

Sparlin’ pink
Hello Kitty-decalled
Ankle high
Light-up soled
Velcro and
Velvet
Tennies

YA-ssuh.
What I’m talkin’ bout

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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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