Happy Easter!

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Recorded Reading (0:59): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ium1mq3tmj0pa596wpa21/The-Spirit-Rises.mp3?rlkey=mz86rqz0czgn57qhloqemi255&dl=0

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The Spirit Rises

You can tell it to stay down
Tell it act just like a clown
Bow to inevitability
Decide no better day you’ll ever see

Instruct it to think twice
Remind it of the price
To live without device
In upright honesty

Coach the sacrifice
Of any requisitioned price,
The basic things of life
To have amid the strife

Point your finger in its face
Yell at it to keep its place
Just so that you can survive
So that you can stay alive

But Spirit has
The last to say
It rises,
Rises anyway

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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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