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Recorded Reading (1:14): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/fukhpxieugik3k5nzakjq/talking-to-tesla.mp3?rlkey=onjlduet1x78vxyx1nomnlp2e&dl=0

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talking to tesla

he said
i was actually
quite happy there at the end
with my birds

i’d let it all go
by then, you see —
glory and the
struggle for glory

knew my own
contribution to have been,
somehow,
successfully made

or as successfully
as i could manage, anyway

i could rest, then, and
dream

always did
love to dream

like a child at play
in the fields of the mind…

all the people around me saw,
of course, was:

low rent

‘what a comedown’
‘such a tragedy’

called me paranoid
too

they generally do
when you have little money

but can see the future

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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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