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Recorded Reading (1:21): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/k98kqbfhonx322lidvtca/Iridescent-Bubble.wav?rlkey=gihpccr0jktezkmavvcoqh6k9&dl=0

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Iridescent Bubble

Before you turn away from all
Which you have impacted
By leaning on that high old horse,
“She overreacted,”

Recall that, small or large,
A thing’s exactly what it is ~
A soda as a sulphur pool
Same the rising fizz

A lie’s a lie if it affects
One person, ten or all
Betrayal’s still betrayal
If it’s only two feet you fall

War is war no matter if
The field a kitchen table be
So long as there be present
Unfriendly animosity

And friendship should be counted on
Not to attack one suddenly
When it thinks it has got one
In a state of vulnerability

If it’s otherwise that it
Chooses some of time to act
It’s only at the others
It friendship is in act’ual fact

Betrayal need not of huge
Cataclysmic numbers boast ~
These matters are not subject to
Those common concepts, “least” and “most”

It’s all about the precious
Iridescent bubble must
Be nurtured any two between
The word for it is “trust”

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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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