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Recorded Reading (0:56): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ed24zka9pcde9r24lvcoq/Yes.mp3?rlkey=5bm728k52kk4effgvtd85zjgq&dl=0

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Yes!…

I have no instinct for an argument —
Competition may cull the least and worst
And those who be on lies and hoaxes bent,
But in its violence we find disbursed

Most of the gift a speaker offers us
Most of its nuances, much of its charm
And all of its refinements, bringing thus
Our most creative energies to harm

I enjoy best the kindly company
Of those who thank its giver for the gift
Inquiring of its workability
In terms the gen’rous heart and mind uplift

Our wits this world sufficient roughly hone ~
Turn we the more refined side of the stone

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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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