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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.

Internationally lauded author Pearl Buck was raised in the earliest decades of the twentieth century in China, where common practice was to indulge toddlers endlessly, and all the servants were appalled at the “barbaric” strictness of her missionary parents ~ secretly seeking to ameliorate every punishment she was meted.

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Recorded Reading (0:36): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vu4n40yw7cwzyp0hkswup/Infamous-Laydeez-Bucking-the-System.mp3?rlkey=4p4bw44bj9173s486rjihivna&dl=0

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Infamous Laydeez ~ Buck-ing the System

In literary infancy
Little Pearl advantage took
Of native Chinese clemency
Her parents overlook

When any kind of trouble had
Staff wouldn’t care that she’d been bad
They’d make it better look

Little they knew she’d grow someday
To someone with something to say
Revealing former truancy
For those same parents clear to see
In a future book!

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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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