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Hallelujah Copywrite

Today I wanted to buy the copyright to the process of hallelujah

******* in joy the same way whales eat krill

You just bottle it up inside your lungs until you have enough

 

Inside my fridge I have vacuum sealed jars of hallelujah

There’s nothing religious about that

Jars labeled things like

Loss of virginity

Rob lived this time

The homework is complete

 

Hallelujah

 

It’s the same way prayer works

Backwards

Pulling bits of god like an inhale

 

I want to hyperventilate on your hallelujah

Like a gospel choir on speed

 

It collects

Over time

For instance

It was maybe a month in to sleeping at Delia’s and Toffer’s house

Before I realized

I didn’t have to sleep in my car anymore

You go into the bathroom to **** and realize

Hallelujah

A jar labeled

Found a Home for now

 

I know science can do this

For the sake of all that is a monument to a single life

So that on your death bed, or at your funeral

Everyone there can hold a jar

 

Cold and warm at the same time

Vibrating in their palms

In violent joy

Like mozzletoff cocktails

They are thrown

And when they shatter there is a song

That has been collecting for years

 

The same word in different tonal joys

 

Your life

 

Every good moment

 

Hallelujah

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jon-tobias
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May 18, 2014
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