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(The poet thinks life’s too short not to wear her prettiest dresses every day)

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Recorded Reading (0:34): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ymrxtpncgo1yolyfw20v7/I-Guarantee-You-This.wav?rlkey=umjc416hmr82m61hn8c7beey7&dl=0

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I Guarantee You This (For Mary Oliver)

If I wear away
From any debacle
The one garment

In which I am standing
At that very
Fateful moment

And afterward
Every day
For the foreseeable future…

It will be, I guarantee you,
My most
Beautiful dress

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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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