A windy afternoon in the El Dorado hills can be heard in the background of this recording.

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Recorded Reading (0:43): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5ylsdni8avd4y9wyp3y2i/Lose-Lose.mp3?rlkey=teas4rh0y5dwcmrkoxzn45mby&dl=0

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Lose-Lose

If I get angry ’bout it
I’m a bitch

If I refuse to do that,
Patsy am

If I don’t let it bother me
I must not even care

If I find it kind of funny
Must be missing some up there

I wish but in friendship
You to greet

You, though, seem quite bent
On my defeat

Is there some happy way
Our minds might meet,

Give your dog something other
Than this other dog to eat?

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