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Recorded Reading (1:10): https://www.dropbox.com/s/7hjfnszv2n4vp8g/Stone%20Soup.mp3?dl=0

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Stone Soup

You may keep your secrets
Or tell them to the wall
I’m not interested
In having secrets at all

You feel need to keep your wisdom
From your fellow man
So you come wealthier to be
Thinking yourself “better than”

It doesn’t seem this poet to
It would be other than great good
To banish every secret
From the human neighborhood

What is it that you’re so freaked out
Thinking I might see?
Where does miserliness fit in
To your Christianity?

It wasn’t for the bottom line
Nor for mere selfish wishes
The miracle was granted
Of the loaves and fishes

Instead, the few existing scraps
Of nourishment for,
Baring teeth and fingernails ~
Another human war,

Example made there was of that which
Happens when we pause before
Harnessing the force of love:
Suddenly, there’s ~ just ~ more!

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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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