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Recorded Reading (0:34): https://www.dropbox.com/s/t673g29kqrfklpy/Don%27t%20Treasure.mp3?dl=0

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Don’t Treasure

What we don’t treasure
While it’s around
Soon in regretful
Memory’s found

What we don’t celebrate
While it is here
Has the sad tendency
To disappear

We shake our heads
Regretfully, after,
Reducing it all
To small, rueful laughter

“I didn’t really
Know where it’s at —
I surely should have
Hung on to that!”

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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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