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All great minds in history have had idiosyncrasies. Einstein bought mother’s milk from the village women to drink. Edgar Cayce was a passionate smoker. And Carl Jung laughed so loud that strangers were known to walk up from the street to see what was so funny.

The poet herself partakes in no practices in which she does not deeply believe, and is happy to share the results of her lifelong independent researches in rational and cooperative conversational endeavor to illuminate that for which she lives ~ the truth.

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Recorded Reading (0:52): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ekr3o7zh6bzsamjftakq6/Doesn-t-Make.mp3?rlkey=3yvajt3znsm3w3mk1p9u9b4b0&dl=0

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Doesn’t Make

Mothers have always said
Button up or you’ll catch cold
Careful where you’re going

That doesn’t make them paranoid
Just mothers

Kids have always
Unbuttoned their jackets
Leapt before they looked

That doesn’t make them pathologically maladaptive
Just kids

I creatively partake in practices
Of which at first knee jerk
You may not approve

That doesn’t make me unexamined
Just a poet

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Until removal of the stalker/targeter/vandal/arsonist following her allows her to approach any landlord ~ even for a private parking space ~ and to begin once again to create professional connections and to rebuild her life, this poet presently lives homeless and at a fraction of her nation’s poverty level ~ still working to contribute to her society, however, seven days a week.

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