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(Can the reader think of any social environment among us in which what’s said and what’s done are genuinely the same, and no one’s trying to “get away” with anything?

Neither can this poet.

In work, marriage, commerce, even recreation ~ all areas of human striving ~ we are used, as they say, to being “handed a bill of goods,” from which we must then decipher, ourselves, what is meant to be heeded and what’s just there for show.

It’s gotten to the point at which those who actually and wholeheartedly go with any stated program are seen as laughably immature by the heavily and habitually compromised “adults” by whom they are surrounded.

The poet finds this not only illogical but most indicative of, and contributive to, our currently epidemic sense of separation ~ from one another, from the planet we live on, and from ourselves.)

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We Say This but Do That Here

Well,
Either do this
Or call it that.

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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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