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Recorded Reading (1:25): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3jseirf11l3shfr8mdjif/No-One-Told-You.mp3?rlkey=cpdfhxm0d2pwjrtnnf59cuimi&dl=0

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No One Told You

You can’t help it, brother
Don’t know what to do ~
You can’t even help it
Nobody taught you

I’ll bet they told you
Right’s weaker than wrong
That you had to go along
To get along

Or otherwise never
Not to be strong
Other piranha
Humans among

Bet nobody taught you
That working together
We can keep all of us
Out of the weather

No one informed you
Nobody said
That there’s enough food here
To keep us all fed

Enough that nobody
Hunger need dread
If we would just get it
Distributed

By something other
Than own gain besotted
After it’s gathered
And before it’s rotted

You can’t help being weaned
On media lore
Glorifying
Destruction and war

Nobody said
We could all be in clover
By practicing pow’r-with
Instead of pow’r-over

I try to have patience
With your daily brawl
It isn’t your fault:
No one told you at all

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Homeless until removal of the stalker/targeter/vandal/arsonist following her allows her to approach any landlord ~ even for a private parking space ~ this poet presently lives under perpetual threat of towing with all possessions should her 23-year-old van stop running for any reason.

She is badly in need of a modest reserve with which to field any emergency which might occur.

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