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Recorded Reading (0:53): https://www.dropbox.com/s/ny24eh3bfdm40x1/Worth%20Its%20While.mp3?dl=0

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Worth Its While

Being past the time to av’rage female come
The wrinkles and deformities of age
To which our weeping hearts we must benumb
Telling ourselves ’tis but a turning page

The book of any woman’s life assume,
And having for mine art turned myself out
From sweetly temp’rature protected room,
I quibble not consequences about

Though must admit to, understandably,
Regret that which I in my mirror see
As primitive conditions take from me
The last my beauty of — this painful
be

But if my poetry makes people smile
I count the sacrifice most worth its while

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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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