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Recorded Reading (1:46): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qsmu3i8f0ucv6s4lkdd3n/Colorado-is-Now.m4a?rlkey=4bmjeyhyo5wxnhy2rbn04tux3&dl=0

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No, it’s not New York. Not California. Not Texas. Not the deep South. 

According to our most recent major survey, the location in the whole United States where childish hatred and unreasoning predation most rule ~ is now right here in the sunny state of Colorado.

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Colorado is Now the Most Fear Filled State in Our Union

When I’m in my own car
I’m hesitant and weak
Confronted with anomaly
I us’ually can’t even speak

The carefully rehearsed 
And dominating scenes
All fall to pieces, ’cause I don’t
Even know what that word means!

Yes, I will lie and toady
To “authority”
Which means anybody who
Can do some good or harm to me

Anybody who cannot,
Whom I regard as powerless,
With all my frustration
At my own cowardice I bless

I wait until I get into
The comp’ny truck or city bus
Before I have the courage
To make any kind of fuss

When I’m behind its wheel
No longer hesitant or flighty
Suddenly I am become
Majestic and mighty!

So if you don’t look just like me,
If you drive a little van,
If you work at something I find
Difficult to understand

Look out for yourself, because
Honey, here I come
A mighty avenger
Of nothing at all become!

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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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