Happy Fourth of July, Americans!

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Recorded Reading (1:25): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/x5z1au4w8a5efcvpm8ip6/Let-Freedom-Ring.mp3?rlkey=f6a59pet317j8i1017xl7q40f&dl=0

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Let Freedom Ring

Are you free to read your choice,
To opinions give your voice,
Publicly your thoughts to write?
Do it while it’s still your right!

Are you free to dress in ways
Which your own esthetic please?
Take those garments off the shelf
Go today dressed as yourself!

Are you free abroad to roam
Or, by choice, to stay at home,
Whichever your pref’rence be?
In either one a blessing see!

Full of holes though it might be
There is a safety net for me
Provided by society
Which I repay most gratefully

By exercising liberty,
And work for which I able be,
In order to preserve the one
And get the other timely done

Such a policy seem wise:
Existing freedoms exercise
The while our finest efforts bring ~
Continue to let freedom ring!

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This poet presently lives at a fraction of her nation’s poverty level.

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