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Recorded Reading (1:06): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dppxb66pjp4md27e7y54s/Jaded-Pavillion.mp3?rlkey=ta7082vyxxtoif43pparzzude&st=iyqhbjus&dl=0

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Jaded Pavillion

Yes, I feel things deeply
Tell me — should I not?
Might callousness turn out to be
The way this mess we all begot?

If I decry in all our lives
Pathetic lack of good regard,
Much underhanded roguery,
Small mutual reward

If I insist that others treat me
As, in honor, I treat them
No matter what the passing mood
Or emotional whim

If I am true enough a friend
To behave honestly —
For kindness very grateful,
For its opposite sad be

And you decide to label such
“Melodrama” — cool —
I’d rather live warm and alive
Than in a frozen jaded pool

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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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