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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 (0:53): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/quuixdo8yif1rtb4jv9bd/what-happened-after-dorothy-got-her-wish.wav?rlkey=yhhyr0a4u9scv0nkjbktna2an&dl=0

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what happened after dorothy got her wish and woke up back at home

she rubbed her eyes and ~

hey, they’re
really happy to see me here
she thought

nobody’s talking ‘bout
taking away my
toto, either

gosh
that’s good!

then she
rolled up her sleeves

sent letters
of recruitment
back to oz

conditions are
a little bleak
but there’s some good work
to do here
they read

she

hammered and nailed
patched and propped
painted and glittered

chopped wood
carried water

and created
with full approval
in that dream and this

an oz
annex

right there
where she was

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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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