Feel like a misfit?

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Recorded Reading (1:35): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qu8reyg3deew16kymqe3i/Middle-Way.mp3?rlkey=sy7akyqe38f5gph9w9z6yptm1&dl=0

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Middle Way

Not radical enough for the fairies
Too radical for the debs

Not angry enough for the protesters
Too angry for the unprotesting

Too spiritual for the atheists
Too mundane for the spiritual

Too old for the young
Too young for the old

Too vigorous for the men
Too feminine for the females

Too happy to be “realistic”
Too sad to be “cocreative”

Don’t hate that one enough
For this one

Don’t hate this one
Enough for that one

To the untruthful, nihilistic
To the truthful, suspicious

To the poor, privileged
To the wealthy, despicably poor

Too street for the elite
Too elite for the street

Too swift for the slow
Too slow for the swift

Too sterile for the funky
Too funky for the sterile

Too small for the large
Way too much for the small:

In the
Center

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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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