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Recorded Reading (1:15): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nn03on9wv8y4sm95p2yjy/If-it-All-Changed-Tomorrow.wav?rlkey=k69t0uf9ndjhodjvbp62c2xk4&dl=0

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If it All Changed Tomorrow

If we got that phone call
Saying they won’t be coming home
If the waters rose
If the earth began moving
If the air lifted buildings
And slammed them down again
If the other car hadn’t braked just in time
If that knock came on the door
If they said please come with me
We’ll clear this misunderstanding up
Downtown
If they downsized us out
If they launched that missle
If the next meteorite came much closer
If we woke up in the hospital
Knowing life
Would never be the same again

Looking back

Would we find ourselves then
To have been sufficiently grateful
For this
Ordinary
Moment?

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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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