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Recorded Reading (1:17): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/88flmy1cmrdqmsyeizhi9/May-I-Have-Your-Tickets-Please.mp3?rlkey=up75k2isrdr99uu9bniddb62b&st=7ahtxyvz&dl=0

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May I Have Your Tickets, Please?

We don’t know how wrong life can be
Till summoned to the DMV
To be served incompetently —
Workers who cannot agree

From one dim counter to the next
On any tiniest pretext
We get increasingly perplexed
Oh, someone rescue me

From chairs of plastic in a grade
As hard as any ever made
In which we have for hours stayed
Uncomfortably flexed

With people to the right and left
Similarly of hope bereft
That we’ll still have a penny left
After we have paid

The taxes, fees and penalties
Assessments for amenities
To gods of government appease
(It all amounts to theft)

But if we do a powder take
Know it would be a big mistake
We’d better the decision make
To stay in misery

Along with all the rest of us
Better not to make a fuss
Or they will all call us a wuss ~
Tomorrow, we will take the bus!

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This poet works for the good of her nation and society, seven days a week.

She’s in a pretty bad fix right now ~ due to the new crime of online targeting already homeless, now for the same reason the van she lives in has stopped running. Not a hope of fixing it without donations.

SHE WILL NOT SIGN AWAY HER CIVIL RIGHTS AND ABANDON HER POSSESSIONS TO ENTER IMPRISONMENT IN A “SHELTER.” SHE WILL NOT WAIT FOR IMPRISONMENT FOR AN UNPAYABLE FINE.

One ticket is death. Real.

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