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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.

This iconic poetess lived such a reclusive life that there is no photograph of her available past the age of sixteen ~ about the time the events in this poem occurred.

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Recorded Reading (0:48): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zn6b0427np8ogyxwzpu1m/Infamous-Laydeez-That-Dickenson-Girl.mp3?rlkey=civ4w6vd8ge3ep7c04zgeb5ki&dl=0

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Infamous Laydeez ~ That Dickinson Girl

Inhabiting a world of men
In an age Victorian
Once each now and then again
Some young upstart woman would
Conduct her other than she should
According to authorities
Everybody looked to please

Such a one was Emily
Presented with, complacently,
Demand her public faith renew
In the annual review
All the students put on view

Ms. Dickinson kept herself out
Of the universal route
She said then, “I prefer, you see,
The privilege of doubt.”

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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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