(It continually astonishes this poet that those who make an all day, every day practice of biting people’s backs, largely inaccurately, in private ~ read: in a cowardly, secretive and insidious way ~ seem to be the ones who object most strenuously and call the poet down hardest when she pronounces something only once, very accurately, and in a courageously public fashion, quite open ~ if there is any ~ to equally accurate, equally courageous rebuttal)

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the real bitch

… of it is
not
that i say it

you say far worse
behind your hand
every damn hour

no, the real
bitch is
that i’m right,

bitch

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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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