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Recorded Reading (2:37): https://www.dropbox.com/s/tsmrkyvy0padea4/Grown%20Worthy.mp3?dl=0

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Grown Worthy

If the problem’s lethargy
A little extra work’ll fix it,
If it’s social awkwardness
Just need to, in a mixer, mix it,
If logical loggerheads,
Cooperative thought will nix it

A little time is all that’s needed
If the problem’s too much youth
(Everyone has had that trouble
If we tell the honest truth),
Is it fatigue has laid us a low?
Then we perforce must rest, forsooth!

One kind of problem most resists
Resolving harmony
The cure we find for its tough kind
The finest of all cures must be
Or it will, endless, rear its head —
The Hydra, Jealousy

This poet casts within her mind
To find, somewise, some sure,
For this resistant virus,
Equally resistant cure
Until she finds it, she can only keep
Her motivations clear and pure

Desiring all involved to find
A genuinely happy way,
In introspective solitude
As well as in communal play,
Authentically jolly —
Not trying anything to say,

Or show, or tell, or demonstrate,
Manipulate or do,
To underhandedly chastise
Or backhandedly woo,
Or any other thing than bring
True enjoyment friends unto —

That’s when the poet knows once more
It’s from each other we must win
A hand up, sometimes, out of our
Confusion, fear and sin —
It’s nice to see benefit from
That effort, when it does begin

For if we all appreciated
For our contributions feel,
The benefits of jealousy
Show but hollow appeal —
We have something more nourishing
Something more lasting, something real

Something such an awesome weight
Of wonderfulness bring
That wonder rains like pixie dust
All over everything
And all of dimness disappears
Beneath that blanket, sparkling!

Fixed within the center
Of that incandescent beam
Appreciative wonder
Flowing in a stream
When we know we’ve grown worthy
Of our own good self-esteem

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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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