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Recorded Reading (0:44): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/m2r5udn1d9rhu9hxxk40e/things-everybody-knows.mp3?rlkey=u59llzud6hmhi5jmchoe7643k&dl=0

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things everybody knows

in norway
never blow your nose
hork it back instead ~
considered more sanitary

in thailand
don’t point your toes
toward a buddha
or turn your back
on a geshe

in tibet
whatever the moment’s hardship
if you are not smiling
they wonder why

in america
never appear
with a single speck
of the planet you live on
anywhere on your person

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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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