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Hobo Martyrs

by ian-steele

I met a man in church today, with hair so grey and eyes so old, I thought to myself "If heaven had secrets, surely this man would know." We talked for a while, and he spouted wisdom like a stream, and I pondered what his cryptic advice might mean, and we left together, out the gilded double doors of the church. It was cold that day, but the birds still sang, and he remarked that it was so. He mumbled to himself what would seem ordinary if I did not know to look for more within his words, and ponder what I had the fortune to hear. I thought long and hard, until I saw a sight that made it at once so clear. I met a holy man in church today, and when we left Heaven for the earth below, the genius opened the wide and gilded double doors, and pissed into the snow.
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Jan 29, 2015
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