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Recorded Reading (0:58): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0bdxma31sqtbjvmu5fqfh/unending-diaspora.wav?rlkey=zr2aieo6k0nsfp0lqrlw1h1iy&dl=0

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unending diaspora

as has been
in every place and era
we find them

here
and
there ~

sitting beside us
on the curb
outside

a nearly deserted
long distance bus terminal
at 3 am

sharing
a styrofoam cup
of awful coffee ~

the disinherited
nobility
of our day

no dirt can disguise
no bludgeoning diminish
no roughening mar

the fineness
of their delicate
consideration

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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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