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“You can please some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.” ~ John Lydgate

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Recorded Reading (1:23): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zhn7uziq7fuml4qmw8qi9/Why-Can-t-I-be-Perfect.mp3?rlkey=tz43aetdmefruuz0l7kkrtw8d&dl=0

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Why Can’t I be Perfect?

Why can’t I be perfect
Like my best friend is?
She can do makeup
Just like a wiz

All my peeps on Facebook
Are looking very good
Like ~ if I were as perfect
As every one of them ~ I would

Love scenes in the movies
Gosh, I adore those
No one has to figure out
Where to put their nose

And when they are embracing
Comf’table and warm
They don’t seem to burdened be
With an extra arm

Why can’t I be perfect?
I’m supposed to be ~
Heaven knows I try for it
Frenetically!

Every nail is polished
Every curl is glued
I’m chirpy and I’m upbeat
In my attitude

Follow all my orders
Make sure I’m “in style”
Trend where I am told to ~
Yet, somehow, all the while

I’m looking at the genuine
Unvarnished reality
Of myself, and seeing it
Always imperfectly!

Around me, expectation
All the livelong day ~
I’m supposed to be perfect
How do I get that way?

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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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Thank you for supporting quality in the fine arts.

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