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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: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/p9a7ho39we6pllt5hnnbs/three-versions-of-oz.wav?rlkey=4m4s8u9sr8548q8ncxo23rdj0&dl=0

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three versions of oz

… the ground
breaking movie

… and the original book
of course

(in which the
slippers were
silver)

… and

then

dorothy’s

(my personal favorite)

in which she goes
— just like this —

screw kansas anyway
what an unhappy bunch of people!

if they wanna get a clue
they can just

come

here

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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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