Say that title five times fast.

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Recorded Reading (2:00): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wnfcdujd1y3mckpayvmvs/Utterly-Flagrant-Cocreation.mp3?rlkey=a2t7s8mezpovp1vsjy5ftqlp5&dl=0

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Utterly Flagrant Cocreation

Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay…
I think I maybe get it now — let’s see
If anyway or anyhow
I might be able more effectively
Than in the past my fledgling skills employ
Felicity domestic to enjoy:

Universe, here’s my current thinking now —
That mansion at which the last time we talked
I said I didn’t favor anyhow;
That life of luxury at which I balked
Assuming that the comfort I’d enjoy
Must for support the discomfort employ

Of other souls? — What was I thinking of?
This universe endless abundant be!
If I desire to far enough away
From others’ acoustic inanity
Exist to write my verse, and if a few
Nicely kept rooms and nicely kept lawn, too

Between myself and them the trick will do
Will keep me happy, and keep happy they
To surely whom my need to concentrate
Seems naught but affected, entitled play
And if I must to earn such privacy
Enlarge my dreams — well, the reality

Is that dreams just don’t get much larger than
These gifts through me which come — this poetry
If any gain civilization’s won
It’s time we start to pay the likes of me
I should be famous, and I should be rich
Universe, let’s eliminate the glitch

You should be auctioning my cheapest pen
For cash enough buy back in gold again

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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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