This poet has always been mystified by those who have difficulty finding entries for their gratitude journals.

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Recorded Reading (1:17): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7bmxr261oals0pryha4sp/Any-Ordinary-Day.mp3?rlkey=yy4cclqnzkqtdoychlt6aq6ue&st=kjclir7p&dl=0

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Any Ordinary Day

Did you fetch something off a shelf
For your independent self,
Something you might need or want?
Remember there are those who can’t

Have you recent seen a sight
Lifted your heart in delight,
Something beautiful or kind?
Remember those existing blind

Does it give you joy to hear
Voices of those you hold dear?
There are those who go bereft
Of all sounds, having heen born deaf

Happiness eligible?
Eminently romanceable?
Nature blessed you with the norm
Nor your face twist and deform?

Able dedicate unto
Labor better life bring to
Those you care for, those you love?
Those are blessings from above

Let thankfulness at your heart tug
Don’t go entitled, don’t go smug
Remember to keep in view
All that heaven’s granted you

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This poet/editor is physically disabled, and lives at a fraction of her nation’s poverty level.

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