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Recorded Reading (1:27): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/kyfpta2s0uob5bcifoz8c/Celebrate-Perfection.mp3?rlkey=5n8i8oad8l576p0ckbpoefc2v&dl=0

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Celebrate Perfection

Seek for the perfection in
The loss or the delay
Last moment misplaced items
Slowing down the day

Unstable relationship
May be meant to show
More clearly than a signpost
Where we have next to go

The cancelation of a plan
Because of pouring rain
Might save one from an accident
With its attendant pain,

Replacement of a vehicle,
Insurance’s increase,
Repair, physical therapy —
Oh, hassles without cease!

Then did you speak a word
That someone failed to understand?
Dismiss not the experience
As useless out of hand

Though your intended meaning
May somehow have been missed
Other life alt’ring insight
That thirsty spirit may have kissed,

Which, had you but known about,
You’d preferred it to receive —
In midst of life’s frustration
Do continue to believe

Weight of your expectation
Will its outcome affect
In ways your own limited mind
Never might suspect

Seek out the perfection
As matter of course
Celebrate perfection
And perfection will be yours

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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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