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Recorded Reading (1:20): https://www.dropbox.com/s/9h9gmlafau53qxr/I%27m%20Sorry%20I%20Came.mp3?dl=0

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I’m Sorry I Came

I’m sorry I came
To this Third Dimension ~
I thought I could help 
With some of this tension

Thought I could offer,
If not an upliftment,
A song or a story
Before back I went

I’m sorry I looked and
Sorry I listened
To those teachings in school ~
Remember? They glistened

With rights, each one with its
Responsibility?
Sorry I thought
That those teachings truths be

Innocent till proven guilty?
All created equal?
Know the name of our accuser? ~
What’s there for a sequel?

Streets all paved with gold and
Fountains running with good wine?
Now I’m getting old, and
I think that is just, just fine

Why would I want to stay where
Gifts in hardship, from the heart
Made, in sterling quality
Don’t even get a start

But some cheap plastic trinket
Which everyone despise
Is also found perpet’ually
In front of everybody’s eyes

Go back to your sitcoms
Your consumer goods
Back to never laughing
To never really feeling good

I wish that I had had the sense
Before I came to know it
You have no idea
How to treat a poet

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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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