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AWordOfWarning

to those who may be concerned

please avoid every ink drop and walk forward

 

But to those confident few

who sit in the pews of their own churches

and pray to their image, struck upon a cross

fashioned from bits of life experience

and the mortar crafted from strands of their own

product infused hair

 

A word of warning

 

that crown of thorny poems

whose lines weave and turn sharply

spaced out without meaning

but seemingly meaningful

yet unfull in the fullest sense of the

un-word

 

you only ****** your hair

and nail yourself to your own vanity

making structural pleasantries

that mean absolutely nothing

 

if a poem is your cross

cross it lightly

do not blind your meaning looking straight into the sun

your religion is for yourself

you died for yourself

mimicking jesus does not mean you died for everyone.

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josh-koepp
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Jan 21, 2013
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