Back when she had a home, and companions on it, this poet always struggled mightily, despite her disabilities, to be as wonderful for them as she ever tried to be for anyone else.

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Recorded Reading (0:31): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nsm0fxfoip6ny2q2o2qcd/Bassackward.mp3?rlkey=7q1ak1nf760bukwdpa6ppp1a7&st=btpjel6x&dl=0

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Bassackward

Our culture in, we careless are
Of those with whom we live
Too often at perpet’ual war —
It is to strangers that we give
Our highest and our best intents
The most basic requirements
Of sweet civility…

Forgive me, both ladies and gents:
That seems backward to me

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

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