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(For your Saturday morning enjoyment, a short series of six poems penned at various times in the poet’s career upon the theme of The Wizard of Oz)

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Recorded Reading (0:23): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/skw2ge44o9iaj4kwr957e/Dorothy-s-New-Home.wav?rlkey=a8ch9yhe34kdxfwarypcumpr5&dl=0

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Dorothy’s New Home

Was given the ruby slippers
And my Toto, too
Permission with to go clicking away

— I looked at all of those beautiful folks
And said, if it’s just the same to you
I think I’ve decided to stay

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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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