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Recorded Reading (1:01): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/8mjc6vdcn46e4mj8njajv/Reconfiguration.mp3?rlkey=z70rvdkrnjt00wupd5xetn7hb&dl=0

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Reconfiguration

What is the meaning of the word “success”?
That, once we into adulthood have grown,
Shall shopkeepers our money smiling bless
And we will own what all the others own?

Will it mean that we spend our time away
From those with whom our true happiness lies,
Become so stiff we forget how to play,
Look down on the impoverished but wise?

Or might the best success be in the smiles
Of those to whom we reach out as a friend
And ease along through life’s most weary miles ~
As someone upon whom they can depend

Caring, kind and considerate to be?
~ That seems much more like true success to me

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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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