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Recorded Reading (1:28): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ah84tn2m03wmit4xl1opc/Prefer-Peace.mp3?rlkey=uz9ltbes6grrl5kimdgdx7stf&dl=0

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Prefer Peace

We know your kind
Vindictive kind
Not happy with a happy settlement ~

That victory
For all who be
Agreed agreement is among us meant

You cannot be
Complacently
In presence of unconditional peace

On own petard,
‘Spite all your art
And obfuscation, with annoying ease

No one to gull —
Get comfortable
Long-mem’ried friend, yet bent for war upon

Get with the
Itin’rary
You’ll give yourself away, depend that on

A true new start
Comes from the heart
And a new start is what you have been giv’n

Abandon ye
Tactically
Survival modes by which you have been liv’n

There’s no one here
Means harm, my dear
Unless you forward wrestle from the past

Some fictive pain
Ungainly gain
And try to make that grievance longer last

You’re in a place
May yet save face
For healing and renewal have your ease

Requirement
But your consent
To be genuinely okay with peace

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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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