“The price of Liberty is eternal vigilance” ~ Thomas Jefferson

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Recorded Reading (1:13): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/x5z1au4w8a5efcvpm8ip6/Let-Freedom-Ring.mp3?rlkey=f6a59pet317j8i1017xl7q40f&dl=0

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Let Freedom Ring

Are you free to read your choice,
To opinions give your voice,
Publicly your thoughts to write?
Do it while it’s still your right!

Are you free to dress in ways
Which your own esthetic please?
Take those garments off the shelf
Go today dressed as yourself!

Are you free abroad to roam
Or, by choice, to stay at home,
Whichever your pref’rence be?
In either one a blessing see!

Full of holes though it might be
There is a safety net for me
Provided by society
Which I repay most gratefully

By exercising liberty,
Work for which I able be,
In order to preserve the one
And get the other timely done

Such a policy seem wise:
Existing freedoms exercise
The while our finest efforts bring ~
Continue to let freedom ring!

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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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