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Recorded Reading (0:56): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/e0tcywbqb301h77872t7j/Body-and-Mind.mp3?rlkey=3n5nyh32r7yo1uf9r8ru4vubd&dl=0

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Body and Mind

You went the extra, extra mile
You gave it all your best
To pass baton
The lead upon ~
To pass the lethal test

Maintaining your compass’ionate smile
As those around decided go
With prur’iant leer,
Constricting fear ~
Or what at deepest heart they know

You asked with all your humblest heart
For angelic advice ~
Whatever came
Aught aim they’d name
You willing were to pay that price

Completed now the hardest part
As by new circumstance confessed ~
Respect your need
Reduce your speed
Body and mind require to rest

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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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