every day in 2016, write a sentence or a paragraph or a poem that inspires or appreciates
Dori Marler is a poet and a hostess and a decoration for our poetry world here in Los Angeles, at least out here in "the valley" part of Los Angeles. She's a bit delicate now, so she doesn't get out as adventurously as she used to. She was born in a town so wee it was almost a village; it hosted about a thousand people. With inspiring courage, she rose from deputy sales clerk to buyer for a department store chain. Her mantra was, "That doesn't look that hard." Of course that rise took her from tiny town to NYC to Chicago and to Los Angeles, another demonstration of her courage. And now years later, she writes and presents poems so pretty they might be flowers in another world, for the most part gentle, with flicks of humor and kicks of irony. Dori does decorate our world, but like a badge, not a swirl of frosting.
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