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Recorded Reading (1:38): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ml22tcs8wt8q2ismrr1u6/Fake-it-Till-You-Make-It.mp3?rlkey=ltftdeaq68a3jst8sjw7ejutc&dl=0

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Fake it Till You Make It

Can’t quite “get”
A practice yet?

You’re pretty sure
Its source is pure

And that it
Would benefit
Your seeking for
Celest’ial lore

Or

Something more
Practical,
Like thinking well

Never can tell
When some advice
Mental device
Designed more clarity to bring
Might change just about everything

Seeming to penetrate the haze

Benefitting future days

So if a change of attitude —
Perhaps a bit more gratitude
Or a greater presence in
The moment — you’d like to begin

But haven’t yet quite figured out
How to go its way about,
Best angle from which it pursue,
Or benefits it might accrue,

This poet say:
Make into play
What serious
Might be a fuss
To get into

No reason you
Can’t check it out

Discover what it’s all about
Wear the clothing, strut the strut
Find out all the scuttlebutt

And as you exploring go
Some new people get to know

If you find
It ease your mind,
With your spirit resonates,
Sense of comfort it creates

Then you’ve got your answers to
Those pesky questions with which you
Began to try that practice on,
Its benefits rising upon
Understandings you have won

Having thus begun
Your good new pathway well upon

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

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