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Recorded Reading (2:10): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/isofjqihulws1xl3tn1sx/Something-Worthy.mp3?rlkey=9d82423mn3jwx52oiohv7mte4&dl=0

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The question, upon consideration of the following offering, is this:

What’s world class poetry “worth” to our society, in its own lifetime?

So far ~ homelessness, humiliation, and twenty four hour harassment.

Soon, as the new laws take effect ~ the choice between imprisonment, and a peaceful death at my own hand.

Give me liberty, or give me death.

Bring my targeter to justice, so that I can find a place to exist, without subjecting my hosts to risk.

Hello?… Hello?…

Three and a half years. Fifteen thousand miles. Three American cities. Four, now…

We will say afterward, “Back then, they couldn’t tell a masterpiece from a greeting card.”

Too late for me.

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Something Worthy

I’ve found something I can do
To make other people smile
To ease somebody else’s burden
For a little while

For there have been those times when I
Was staggering in pain
When someone lifted mine till I
Was back in shape again

But seldom have I seemed to find
The talent, skill, the knack
Successfully to manage
To give something back

Now, I hope, might have discovered
On this needful Earth
Something I am good for
Something I am worth

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

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