Life while followed by a “devil who never sleeps.” Way too much meth for that.

Since welcoming households started actually burning the same night of that welcome, it’s been impossible for the poet to reach out with a clear conscience to create even the first part of what she needs in a home.

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Recorded Reading (2:07): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/e6xtj4xomdge7jt7rh52f/Swift-Dissolution.mp3?rlkey=fc4szkjacx8jj8h2ilhszbnp0&dl=0

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Swift Dissolution

Her problem isn’t cocreation
Of her record take ye heed:
A dozen times she has created
Just exactly what she need

Created out of nothing —
Practically thin air, too —
Go ahead and find yourself
A place to repair unto

Containing but three simple things
Which necessary be
For the good creation
Of impossible poesy

(And if of that impossibility
You find yourself in doubt
There is one way in which you may
Accurately check it out:

Just attempt for me create,
Just one stanza, two or three
Of intelligible, agreeable
Rhyming poetry…)

The first need, that the space in which
She works must be completely free
Of sounds of television
And media cacaphony

The second that the poet be,
As an adult, able
To inhale the smoke of a
Simple vegetable

The third would be connection to
Most basic amenity
Whether on foot or by bus
That connection be

These elements in our chaotic
Modern word are rarely found
For any of her income —
You only have to look around

To know how true that is —
And yet over, over again
She able has her vision seen
Reality to gain

No, it’s not cocreation
In which she has been falling down
It’s that this third dimension
Sees a saint as any clown

A veritable paragon
Of vuln’rability
Is all an ageless poet’s
Considered here to be

Over and over again, she
Faultlessly her problems solve
Only for acidity
Swift to all dissolve

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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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