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Recorded Reading (1:45): https://www.dropbox.com/s/f7h33w7bbconuiq/If%20You%27d%20Never%20Seen%20an%20Apple.mp3?dl=0

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If You’d Never Seen an Apple, Would You Believe That They Exist?

I cannot really blame you
When you give small credibility
To someone who is sensitive,
Intuitive psychically

It’s clear that you have never found
Your own eyes crying for
Someone you pass, unfortunate,
Whom you have never met before

Have never seen the loving past
Of someone standing right behind
Them, faithful, faithful to the last
Though they continue to it blind

Your life, when viewed in retrospect,
Has had no chance, as oft has mine,
To bring you total wonderment
At what you see behind —

The strangers who approached you
An ordinary sidewalk on
To ask you for your good advice
Their deepest needs upon

The messages accepted gasping
Awed receivers by
Before they in delight, relief
And love and joy began to cry

When you’d made it known to them
What Light forgiving spirits say;
The blessings they called back to you
From half a block away

The times when long years afterward
One of them appear
To say what a transformative
Word you’d given them to hear

And how it changed one life
And that life then changed many more —
How can you have respect for me
When you’ve known none of these before?

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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.

Donors may visit http://www.UgiftABLE.com , using code #72D-31S. It does take several days for the poet to be notified of your patronage.

Thank you for supporting quality in the fine arts.

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

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