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hans

… dripping on your 
kitchen floor in his
too small jacket and too
large boots
thin
shivering but
with that gleam in his eye
hoping a good
fairy tale
might be worth some
dinner

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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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