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Recorded Reading (1:07): https://www.dropbox.com/s/c7v0dcyvkv968pm/time%20to%20clown.mp3?dl=0

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time to clown

you think it time
to clown aroun?
push ma face
into de groun?

looking forward
to de soun
of ma wretched
weeping frown?

okay, ma dear
less git own down
if fer war yer
bent n boun

in fer a penny
in fer a poun —
cain stan me?
then cain stan

gotta have
dat uppa han?
gonna have
no han at all

i’ll be watchin
close dis fall —
ain even
dufficult to call

you give, you get
frown for frown:
watch this clown
come tumblin down

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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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