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Recorded Reading (0:42): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/sdl2p5efiuqdfwnlz6f3k/Hard-to-Beat-Feeling.mp3?rlkey=wx4jm5ijyguoca9dzjxnyejdz&dl=0

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Hard-to-Beat Feeling

It’s hard to beat that feeling ~
Someone smiles at you in trust
Someone thinks you’re decent,
Generous and just

For one magic moment
Between the two of you
No hatred, nor yet denigration
Did they fear to view

Someone found permission
In this world of lacks,
Predations and suspicions ~
From you ~ to relax

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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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