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Recorded Reading (1:01): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ykhebps33vluqirtpc9jb/The-Lesson-Will-be-Repeated.mp3?rlkey=zk4etjnkz1f9xftgk6i1ijo4u&dl=0

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The Lesson Will be Repeated Until it is Learned

This has just been dress rehearsal
Make no complacent mistake
We must learn a dying planet
Doth a dying people make

We must learn to find a balance
Between selfishness and greed
And the present interests
Right beside us, and in need

We must learn, when we are finished
Playing — just as children do,
Our responsibility
Is look the cleaning up unto

This has just been dress rehearsal
We haven’t really learned a thing
But learn we will, as more disasters
Home to us our lessons bring

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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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