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Around My Neck

By Kathy Powers

I carry my safety
Around my neck.
I carry our safeties
Around my neck.

Around my neck
So I don’t lose them
When I go out
To face the unknown.

My smart phone,
My bus pass,
My home keys,
My red plastic whistle.

A Temu red whistle
I wear outside
To warn my neighbors
When danger happens.

I carry my safety
Around my neck.
I carry our safeties
Around my neck.

Close to my heart.

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Kathy Powers is a lifetime Chicagoan. At 50, Kathy speaks out as the voice of the people. She became a revolutionary activist whose lifelong fight raises unheard voices. She is the Health Care Desk on the People’s Tribune Editorial Board.

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