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Recorded Reading (0:38): https://www.dropbox.com/s/92qeag8zhw9eaey/Contrarian.mp3?dl=0

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Contrarian

If I say it’s cold
You say it’s hot

I say it is
You say it’s not

I feel that people
Really ought

Be striving to
Each other view

Lovingly, to fully understand
Before they turn their hand

Denigration to —
Apparently, though, you

Thrive on feeling
Unappealing

To give you your full mead:
You adm’rably succeed!

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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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