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Recorded Reading (0:30): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rcp9lmp7dqnqse6wvzyqz/If-You-Have-the-Courage.mp3?rlkey=7mmcq6pwml43199qm8p2gham1&st=iq1mmtr4&dl=0

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If You Have the Courage

If you have the courage
To sing your own authentic song
There’ll be lots of people
To tell you that you do it wrong

Should sparkle, shouldn’t glimmer
Should scintillate or glisten
Do yourself a favor:
Get ready not to listen

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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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