Recorded Reading (2:23): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/9lu1yymiqfj1sueaupoi3/What-s-Right-With-It.mp3?rlkey=21awfcyfgytbhkqdr6ecxepb7&dl=0

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What’s Right With It

From somewhere we have gotten the idea
That it endows us with some kind of “class”
If every time we hear or see
Any sort of novelty
We act just like an ass

Determining with immediacy
Its short or long list of deficiency
Disallow it our affection
If it does not meet perfection —
Rather, ‘perfection’ theoretic’ly,

As in an absence of, unto our view,
Any characteristic thereunto
Might be unique
Might be a “freak”
(Not just like all the freakin’ rest of you)

And, not content primarily to do
This merely inanimate objects to,
Quick to profile
Defile, refile
Flatten people to dimensions two

Such snobs I hereby caution to beware —
One stumbles when ones nose is in the air
In inspection
Of “imperfection”
Calling all foul not ultimately fair

In going constantly on the attack
Identifying lack and yet more lack
So very much exclusive of
Any but expensive love,
One tends to find oneself upon ones back

And thoroughly embedded in the mud
By preference no toe have dipped in would,
Brought low by the
Exlusivity
Hath blocked all that’s organic, warm and good

A thing merely from “imperfections” free
Stamped out in daily, hourly misery
By folk between
Man and machine
No form of true perfection really be

Come down from your cold, denigrative height
Absorb a little unfettered delight
‘Twill free your soul
To be more whole
The day you begin asking what is right

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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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