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It’s Women’s History Month here in the United States ~ one during which this poet enjoys offering her tongue-in-cheek series on the lives of ladies who have helped to make modern life as we know it possible for all of us.

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Recorded Reading (0:48): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dqd9hmjj3z504p1zqbqkv/Infamous-Laydeez-Where-Y-at-Harriet.mp3?rlkey=z0ag3hcrjv8ulgo6ca3r3k8tq&dl=0

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Infamous Laydeez ~ Where Y’at, Harriet?

Harriet was but a slave
When her angry master gave
Her youthful head a clout
Which made her narcoleptic so
Off to sudden sleep she’d go
This moment here, next moment out
But did she let that stop her? No!

Still she led sisters, brothers too
Those piney midnight woodlands through
Slipped past sentries all around
Past each slavering bloody hound
And did her round of day work too ~
To her oppressors overthrow
She built her Railroad Underground

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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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