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Recorded Reading (1:32): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jlv8sgi1i5nm75wt5o3vy/Your-Attention-Please.aac?rlkey=bcxwbf7nyndjjun9anih1oudw&dl=0

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Your Attention Please!

Look over here!

Don’t look over there —
That’s
The competition!

We’ve got:

Bells!
Whistles!
Flashing lights!
Unasked-for videos!
Bright red arrows!
Signs that say:

“We know you hadn’t thought
To want this before
But you want it now,
Don’t you?

Well?

All your friends want it

What’s wrong with you?”

Oh…
You’ve been looking
Over there, haven’t you?

And after all
The trouble we took!

Now you’re not thinking
About our product
At all

Probably allowing yourself
To be distracted
By ‘real life’

That’s too bad.

Know what?

You’re starting to look
Smell
Talk
And act

Kinda different
Not exactly the same
Not a carbon copy
Outa fashion
Kinda strange:

Maybe…
Crazy!…

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This poet is physically disabled.

Public housing being insufficient to her medical and creative needs, in order to continue working she is presently living in her minivan, publishing all of her works using one thumb on the touch screen of her smartphone and surviving at a fraction of her nation’s poverty level.

If her work has touched you, she would treasure any contribution you might be good enough to offer ~ http://www.UgiftABLE.com ● #72D-31S.

Please be aware that it takes several days for her to be notified of patronage. Thank you for caring.

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