For those following her adventures and misadventures, the poet has survived this night without further disturbance.

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Recorded Reading (0:52): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/s74jmk100pmbch2nemtw2/Get-On-Up.mp3?rlkey=5l0amnyh0b4trw8ll9iie0pft&dl=0

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Get On Up

Some of us say “Ameen”
Some of us say “Amen”
Some of us say “So mote it be”
Nor do most of us ken

The meanings of these diff’rent words —
Identical they be
Alike is every search for God
Our methods all agree

Some of us call them words of pray’r
And others words of pow’r
But both petition blessing for
The complicated hour

All paths lead up the mountain
Let us drop the stones we’ve thrown
At those upon the other ways
And get on up our own

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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.

Arts patrons may visit http://www.UgiftABLE.com , using code #72D-31S, or choose to send a personal check to the poet’s ABLE account. It takes about two weeks for the poet to be notified of your patronage.

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