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Recorded Reading (0:52): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bphz3daj55pafc49cm84q/Room-to-Grieve.wav?rlkey=fmwzltfi6d60u6jhim1jjsblh&dl=0

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Room to Grieve

Do not make the mistake, my dear
Of trying to be too strong too soon ~
Before grief has its sunset
It must have its high noon

I know that folk in general
Pathetic awkward be
Around the immeasurable
Sorrow of your tragedy

You’d like to reassure them
That it will be all right
While you’re still going through the worst
Of your despairing night

Let them worry ’bout themselves
And you take care of you
There is no way that they can know
What right now you are going through

You’ve naught you need to give them
No lack for which you need atone
You just let the people know
When you need to be alone

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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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