Written for the editor of WP’S own “Garfield Hug” ~ check it out for an excellent daily giggle 👌

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Recorded Reading (0:55): https://www.dropbox.com/s/eq6hf2xrxblz49j/A%20Garfield%20Hug.mp3?dl=0

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A Garfield Hug

Think the concept’s sort of sappy?
Try it ~ it will make you happy!

Though we don’t know how it works,
Suddenly those office jerks

Who just about drive us berserk
The whole time that we are at work,

Drivers’ tempers which erode
With every inch of homeward road,

Demanding parents, neighbors, wife,
The frustrations of a life

Looking after everything
To our doorstep it will bring

Fade into a smaller place
When we look at that silly face

And run our hands over his lush
Orangy synthetic plush

Satisfy a basic itch
Feeling his pillowy squish

So we hug him very tight
To get maximum delight

Then we look him in an eye
Most irreverently wry

With that smile upon his mug ~
Nothing beats a Garfield hug!

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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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