I want to tell you, but can’t, how obsessed god is with me

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hears the whole
of the devil’s apology
does the man
with one ear

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when nothing
was on fire

nothing was proudly
orchestrating
itself

based on the church fire
famously started
by two pieces     of convenience store     bread

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I am going to zip
the tent
now

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a chalkboard eraser
still strikes me
as useless-

a boat
in the hand
of god

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poor speech

imperceptible narrator
of the wound
my mouth
endured