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Recorded Reading (1:21):

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/d0cc3tnw9rcirqcsq7pvp/Proud-Flash.mp3?rlkey=ofj1jrsay7b13fbz8fozuam74&st=av7hi6rp&dl=0

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Proud Flash

I’m so proud to be a master
Poet in the USA
There’s no question of it, I
Can accurately say
That I’m reminded of it every
Moment, each and every day
In a most ~ let’s find the word ~
Stimulating way

Sounds of hatred are my lot
From very first waking thought
To my last wake-up at night
It’s fellow citizens’ delight
To make sure me dismal keep:
Never let me go to sleep
Unless repeated wakened first,
Such the American thirst

For timeless classic poetry
They cannot so abandoned be ~
They’ll exercise communal power’s
To make sure I don’t sleep four hours
And that four hours punctuated
With wakenings of more hatred
That’s what I’ve learned to expect ~
Can’t complain of my neglect!

Publication, however,
I feel that I must aver,
Is an issue very other:
No, they would not wish to smother
Such a light with an excess
Of anything close to success
Fifty years since first begun ~
Publications? Haven’t one.

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