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Recorded Reading (0:53): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zy3apesnw4v0bh5l6xk1i/Elephant-God.wav?rlkey=wzk2qu1z4qme5wfwwwzznzmp0&dl=0

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Elephant God

A legend that all children know
A timeless one, and elegant,
Has to do with six blind men
And an elephant

One felt its trunk, and he declared
The creature long and snaky be,
But the one who felt an ear
Could not make himself agree

And the one who felt a leg
Thought the other two were nuts:
This beast was like a living tree
No ‘ifs’ or ‘ands’ or ‘buts’!

And so it went — and goes today —
About that which we all are blind:
We feeling, like those six men were,
To know of the Divine

Instead of just admitting
That none of us can really see
We seem bent upon proving
How contentious we can be!

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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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