The problem with letting the poet get a little smile on her face is that she tends to pop out works like this one! 

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Recorded Reading (1:02): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/riuinorzbpxc5qdoaaabx/Sometimes-You-Just-Need-a-Pancake.mp3?rlkey=uy45as7ifgija4g0qx0oc5x48&st=9fncvgg2&dl=0

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Sometimes, You Just Need a Pancake

Sometimes, you just need a pancake
Soothe that angst and soothe that ache
Flavor we cannot mistake
Satisfaction cannot fake
Each moistly dissolving flake
Seems to lighter spirits make
Optimism reawake

From the world’s disasters take
A quite badly needed break
We our spatulas uptake
Waiting for the thing to bake
From a thickly running lake
To gourmandly joy bespake
Honey-colored, yummy cake

Goodness just for goodness’s sake
Can’t even put on the brake
Better than a mignon steak,
After all, when joy’s at stake,
All our misery unmake
Every woe and every headache ~
Sometimes, you just need a pancake

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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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