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Historian Zambrotta: Please print this post, and others I will in future indicate, for your ongoing compilation, along with all the other posts and correspondence regarding this targeted terrorism ~ which has been blithely ignored by law enforcement for two long years ~ nationwide.

A nation which has no backup for its poets deserves no backup from its poets.)

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Recorded Reading (1:22): https://www.dropbox.com/s/mvesdu5kvrs4aw3/Oh%2C%20We%27re%20Good.mp3?dl=0

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Oh, We’re Good

We can find a fingernail
Buried in the forest
Which sixteen years of heavy tread
Have stepped on before us

We can find a tiny fish
Underneath the ocean
Simply by its signature
Scientific motion

We can find nefarious
Truant refugees from schools
Where how to fight a terrorist
Is listed in the rules

We find working partiers
Out to have six hours’ fun
And you ~ if you make a mistake
Could be made by anyone

But we can’t find a man who does
His best to let us know he’s here:
Fumes loosed in the libraries,
Dead horses and deer,

Displaced shopping carts
In the hundreds, poisoned milk ~
Anything and everything
A person of that ilk

Can possibly do to earn arrest,
Who hangs around the poet’s van
Within one little mile all day
So he drive her crazy can,

Comes close enough every night
To launch projectiles at its side ~
We just can’t how to deal with him
Expertly decide

Excuse us for two more long years
While we pass it in review
You see, the problem, actually, is
We don’t really want to.

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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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