Written January first of ~ um, one of these years here lately… ☺️

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Recorded Reading (0:47): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ngb2cb6yodapiqy630oen/We-ll-Begun.mp3?rlkey=s1z5wppsktlm3pfa78ow19a1m&dl=0

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Well Begun

What was I doing midnight eve?
Seated in my normal place
Of the Muses to receive

I bent my head to writing in
Such a trance creative of
This new year did well begin

Thereaferward continued more
Than a few additional
Oblivious long minutes more

Before my head out of the ground
At last I pulled to blink and stretch
And have a proper look around

To find the aged year all gone
The infant new adorable
Present to be gazed upon

If all the new year as they say
Continues as it started then
I would have this new year no other way

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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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