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[title] => Big Deference
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[bodytext] => They tell me, Child, beware. There is no substitute for prayer. No synonym for Hymn. In the deepest night, We are still awake. We keep our eyes peeled -- For His sake. There is no sleep For those who weep. For the stubborn -- On behalf of the taciturn. And if we dare to complain, To hem and haw, The faceted jewel That is law Will no longer look out for us In its justice. We might as well Build a precipice Without barricade And expose our skin To a land without shade. And gather all our water In a bucket, And if you have a sorrow, Tuck it Underneath your chin. I must toil out in the naked sun, My lips scourged by ditching skin Turning cracked and chapped, A shovel in my lap, Rooted between the legs, Emerging from an earthen gap. And later, A kitten in my lap, Its movements gentle. My bitter responsibility. This kitten on me forms a gradient, And I am the lesser innocent. It sighs, it purrs, it rolls its tongue, Yet my hands have not been wrung. I found my own guilt In the fallow soil, In the black silt Where I did weep and toil. They tell me Nothing is interchangeable for a dirge, The only way to clear and purge The early troubled state. They tell me, Pray harder, And do not barter In the grieving ways of men, In the dire ways of men. But dire! It is always dire! These relics looking like a pyre -- These matches that ignite fire. An ash-kissed storm Is our new norm! And when I amble off to the Telephone booth, They tell me there is only one way to have dialed -- And then talk in my accent, Hearing laughter on the other line -- I am defiled. Call 911, you messenger, I do not care about your pride, Your family name, your lion prides -- Did Caesar have an ego on the Ides While he lay ambushed? (Can you have an ego while you die? And author synopsis within a sigh?) [comments] => 2 [counter] => 213 [topic] => 43 [informant] => screwge [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => oops )
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