So long as she is permitted to sleep at night and to work on a device with uncompromised functioning, this poet ignores heat, cold, hunger, terror, pain, anonymity, insecurity, solitude, denigration and despisal to continue working seven days of every week.

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Recorded Reading (1:06): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/432tqntlrhyiz0w8bhm37/Sure-Cure.mp3?rlkey=hdbm6tcy1z1ni4sg9enmwndod&dl=0

Sure Cure

When overwhelming circumstance
Begins to truly overwhelm
And the most cursory glance
From just behind the helm

This tenuously piloted
Unusual existence of
(Reckoned, conned and guided
By two stars only: Truth and Love)

Reveals disorder so dismaying
As to take away the breath —
As ’twere whole schools of dolphin playing
With life, happiness and death —

I concentrate on that which brings,
This very moment, most delight,
Which to this heart most sweetly sings
In rosiest, most glowing light

To keep the shadows all at bay
Attempting nearer me to lurk:
I pull up WordPress every day
And gratefully go back to work

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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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