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.

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Recorded Reading (0:58): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/sj9xmz4scgzqi2oob2yop/Infamous-Laydeez-You-Go-Flo.mp3?rlkey=2njhx8mfiw3aoszi8yzgpi538&dl=0

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Infamous Laydeez ~ You Go, Flo!

Little Florence Nightingale
Found herself outside the pale
Of acceptability
At a very early age
Whom squirmy worms did not enrage
Not squealing satisfact’rally
Presented with a slimy snail
Things which never seemed to fail
Other little girls to pale
Most enjoyably

So when she grew to womanhood
And decided that she would
Go to war to nurse the men
And send them back to war again
The threatened mud and blood and pain
Didn’t scare her much at all
Lovingly she would recall
Each grubby little playground swain
‘Twere such a tender memory
Those squirmy worms remain

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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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