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Recorded Reading (0:50): https://www.dropbox.com/s/xd4czt5lh5fz5eg/Gaslighting%20by%20Any%20Other%20Name.mp3?dl=0

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Gaslighting by Any Other Name

I would rather laugh at you
Than talk right to you, any day
I am so afraid
Of what you honestly might say

I’m afraid you might be tasteless
‘Nough to try to be a friend
Instead of a false ally
Wouldn’t that just be the end?

If there is an understanding
I’ll do my best it to discard
And if I do it quietly
I’ll get my favorite reward

In getting you to worry,
To anxiety and fear
So you to everyone around
Unreas’nable appear

It’s just so yesterday, this thing
In which I am delighting —
Though it’s the electric age
I’m still here gaslighting

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