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SUNDAY PRAYER, ccci
time & time again,
to love evil perhaps you must post it
on every telephone pole in town
til good people go around and take it down
misunderstanding the stance you took
those good people nose-deep in their good books
god-fearing, they mean well, but fear hell more
imagining a cellar storage of wine bottles
full of gore porridge. it isn't so
it and evil is everyone you know
including you. it is the secret dark
we fear that yearns to swallow the spark
in every heart they are a perfect pair
and the misled dance of their love affair
has defined our kind since we were swinging in trees
so as you love yourself, love your enemy
i am
you are a birthday
deep with the dayshine
from dusk to moonbreak
the dust of keepsakes
time & time again, i am i am
das - fairfield, iowa, u.s.a.