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Our Women’s History Month selections would hardly be complete without this one!

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Recorded Reading (0:56): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/g7llvf6wu8ryhl9dm99k2/Invitation-to-Propitiation.mp3?rlkey=id5ax1zxgbu79w9btzclzuy0a&dl=0

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Invitation to Propitiation

This is the woman
Speaking now:
First thing,
Everybody bow

And after that
Some scraping would
Also be
Kinda good

And for very
Best effect
You might attempt to
Genuflect

After which
My praise recite ~
An endlessness
Of pure delight

Which I think surely
Must require
Ten minutes to
Meet my desire

After that
It’s okay
To with gifts
Your tribute pay

For your migh-
Ty pagan queen
Whom over-
Sensitive hath been

Did she dismiss
Her favorite?
Well, tell him right
Back here to get —

By appeasement
To perfect
Each and every
Small defect!

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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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