A true story from the life of Mark Twain

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Recorded Reading (1:00): https://www.dropbox.com/s/adujyyn62brdc74/How%20He%20Got%20it%20Back.mp3?dl=0

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How He Got it Back

They say Samuel Clemens searched one day
A page of his popular story for,
Had been belov’d in such a major way
Not one copy possessed he any more

And worse — when to its publishers appeal
Find also their last copies to be gone!
But ere you sorry for this author feel,
Next visit to New York, he chanced upon

A stranger walking down its busy street
“Excuse me,” said the man, “aren’t you Mark Twain?
How int’resting it is that we should meet!
I thought you might like to see this again…”

And that is how his Muse resolved his lack
Of missing copy — how he got it back

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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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