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Recorded Reading (2:18): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4f3zljyoce0mcw7hl8v22/Tour-of-the-Artist-s-Home.m4a?rlkey=5d225unxyp8d1ve0fmvp915sd&dl=0

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Written in Arcata, California, where the poet’s perpetrator could have been stopped before he tied into every nefarious network on our Web and in our nation

 ~ where the poet spent one year literally crawling on the ground to pack a cardboard-stiff frozen tent into her homeless cart right at dawn every day, just as the law required 

 ~ where she split her gut and went into toxic shock in her attempt to be the clean, considerate homeless person SITTING OR STANDING UPRIGHT FROM DAWN TO DUSK as the law also required

 ~ and where she was was sold out ~ for a helicopter and a riot van. 

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Tour of the Artist’s Home

“Being too impoverished to afford a computer of her own,” said the guide, “the poet was unable to publish her works until the invention of the mobile editing app.

“Already nearing sixty years of age and in ailing health, she came here to live, embarking upon a writing career which would produce and publish over one thousand pages of new original work each year — all using one thumb upon the tiny touch screen of her handheld device.

“Each year, those poetic pages were viewed over 100,000 times by what swiftly became a large and passionate following.

“Some of her reader comments are practically poems of gratitude in themselves, for personal enablement gained from her works.

“Her age and disability didn’t allow her to be with us for long…”

One tour member raised her hand.

“I don’t understand,” she said. “Why are we all standing in this cold, empty, windblown field?”

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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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