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Recorded Reading (1:41): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/p3q3odwueucavx1ds1fnn/What-Do-You-Need-to-Truly-Happy-Be.mp3?rlkey=4f8d26zyci3ddgq5s6rv635fq&dl=0

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What Do You Need to Truly Happy Be?

Our needs are very individual
As individual as fingerprints,
Ease of dexterity manual,
Ability to win at half mile sprints,
To write poetry warm and wonderful,
Or audience of strangers to convince

Some of us silence need, some not so much
But would in company more often go
Some crave abundance of good human touch
Others, distinctly feeling far less so ~
One cannot dictate to another such
Expecting them aught comfort thus to know

Some should eat veg’tables, and others meat
For some more milk is good, for others less
Some gratified are by a little sweet
After good dinner their digestion bless
Still others never should have spice to eat
Or beans, or bread, or eggs or watercress!

Some of us ought cannebanoids ingest
The same send others quickly off to sleep
Wrong, who think uniformity is best
Right, whose considerations run more deep
Seek actual results — allow the test —
Recognize good, and your own counsel keep

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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.

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