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Recorded Reading (1:37): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/8vdkwujrrxybquo6oy3dg/Our-New-Age-Has-a-Problem.mp3?rlkey=weecnuvqbwbxulngvdhpj09kd&dl=0

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Our New Age Has a Problem

Our New Age has a problem
I can see it right from here
And as I gaze, one thing becomes
Overabundantly clear

In none of your transition towns
Your ecovillages
In your cohousing and communes
Will truly fine arts bless

The citizens of days made dim,
Though sunshine pour around,
By absence of aught new great works
Written, visual or sound

Perhaps there one or two existed
In creative history
Who had the superhuman strength
Remain employed to be

Full time, and yet illuminate
Those timeless archetypes
Which cut through all the groupthink
Profit motivation, hypes,

Common denominator’s
Tyrannical precedence
(E’en though all may be undertook
In good causes’ defense),

But most of us who write for ages
Have been destined hapless be
Signif’icantly disabled
In ways most people cannot see

We limp where others walk aright
Barely able to remain
In this world, feeling in ourselves
Every tiny creature’s pain

Look you, planners of destiny:
Unto fine arts give full lease
Or you’ll have lots of finger paint
But not a single masterpiece

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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 seven days a week to contribute to her society, however.

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