(“That’s the way the world works.” “Got to go along to get along.” “Who said life was fair?”

Cowards. Complacent bullies. Ship of fools.

WE make it those ways. WE can change them.)

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Recorded Reading (1:09): https://www.dropbox.com/s/yjq98y98qriu4si/Don%27t%20You%20Worry%2C%20Cora%20Mae.mp3?dl=0

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Don’t You Worry, Cora Mae

Don’t you worry, Cora Mae
We’re sending that poet away
Just like you wanted us to
Just like you told us to do

It kind of confused us, honey
‘Cause we know you like your money
Don’t really matter where she came from
She could really make us some

If we’d let a year or two
Pass to bring results in view
And then we coulda turned a page
Put this town on the world’s stage…

You said we must that plan abort
You wouldn’t put up with her sort
Although we don’t know why you care —
None of us got anywhere!

But be all that as happen may
You know we menfolk, Cora Mae,
Would never work, burp, breathe or play
Unless you said it was okay

You may obedience expect
Though it don’t come from real respect
You’re stupid and look like a hoss
But you’re married to the Boss!

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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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