This poet’s paternal grandfather was a scientist with the then-NACA, before travel to space turned it to the NASA with which we are familiar today.

In her childhood, the family had a running joke about these “absent-minded professors’” need to check their own name badges before answering the phone when the secretaries were out on break…

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Recorded Reading (2:02): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jmq1xy6tozfnil9qiebsu/To-the-Friends-and-Families-of-Mature-Creative-Int.mp3?rlkey=pnfekmny27fthegor9fl6lew9&dl=0

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To the Families and Friends of Mature Creative Intelligence

You may not have noticed
How alike the symptoms be
Of dread senile dementia
And creativity

To determine accurately
True source any symptom of
Might one or the other be
In someone that you love

It is necessary
Take a long look back
And ascertain the starting point
Of any present lack

The first time this poet remembers
Realizing I
Remembering a homeroom face
Must default decry

Wasn’t any date
That you might call recently nigh
For on that day I graduated
From my Junior High

As long as I remember
I have forgetful been
Of keys and purses, socks and bags
And all things in between

Receiving lengthy lectures
On my carelessness
E’er ten years my toddler life
Had appeared to bless

For entire adulthood
I’ve been running late
Pausing answer to the call
Poetry create

And scrambling my directions
On journeys small and great,
Falling into tendency
To free associate

Unless companions wanted
To earn storekeeper’s wrath
They’ve known for decades that they just might
Have to do my math

All of these shortcomings
I could clear and early gauge
None of them deter’iorated
Has with my advancing age ~

Throw artistic loved ones not
On constant need for own defense:
These are but signs and symptoms
Of creative intelligence

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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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