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Written over three years ago. Never truer than today.

Illustrated: Amelia Bloomer and her scandalous Suffrage gown.

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Recorded Reading (1:09): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/c0rfwuqkpcimos2nef8z9/the-unimportance-of-my-work.mp3?rlkey=qqmtvafh9nubw5mtk5c64yy1l&dl=0

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the unimportance of my work

they told rosa parks
she was nuts, you know:

don’ matter where you sit, honey
long as you get to

it’s unimportant

sir thomas more’s neighbors
shook their heads:

what’s it matter to us
if the king gets divorced?

it’s unimportant

women drew their skirts
away
when passing suffragettes:

unnecessary, unfeminine, unadvisable

it’s unimportant

right now
right here and now

i’m talking to you
about my personal freedoms

the freedoms
the law says i have

when i might
not

right now
you think
this particular kind
of freedom

is unimportant

until
it

isn’t

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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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