(The poet can have all these things in “public housing” ~ but refuses to sign away her civil liberties, forego her pain medication, respiratory medication, and what she needs to write, and be treated at every “home”coming like a Junior High School juvenile offender to live there.)

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Sweet Dreams This Poet May Never See Again

• Falling asleep without being wakened over and over (and over) first

• Awakening to sounds other than those of hatred

• Walking away from her van, ever, for any length of time, anywhere but directly under surveillance

• Frying a morning egg with homemade mashed potatoes

• Lying down flat at night

• Taking a hot bath

• Making a friend without being afraid for the friend

• Seeking a legal address without being afraid for the landlord

• Museums

• Performing for an audience

• Attending community events

• Creating sources of income

• Having a life

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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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