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Recorded Reading (1:00): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wl6t6bxj8nr536e9v8muf/More-Than-Earthly-Loss.mp3?rlkey=f5a30ena3q6u8wjyl87h9fjun&dl=0

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More Than Earthly Loss

How glad I am that I have never
Had anything much to lose
Nothing much to hold me back
When it came time to choose

Between the hesitation
Which would have preserved
Something I had worked for
Imagined I “deserved”

Something I could not give up
Something thought the cost
(Against what I was living up
Not “much of a loss”)

Now I know there is no creature
More deserving than another
Not a single passing soul
Who is not my equal brother

If I have been blessed
To find my way amid the storm
That is not because
Some “errant” way I made reform

To tell it fully accurately
Much more it hath been because
I feared a moral bankruptcy
More than any earthly loss

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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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