God slips from
tongue as phlegm
from lung post-
cigarette
back to back
reel to reel
sitting *** to heel
palm to palm
praying
I've spent paychecks
laying pavement
into bedsheets
bearing teeth
biting holes into
free time
me time
with myself
waiting
twenty one years
stacking unread
newspaper new with
news not bothering
with digestion
to treat the text
as words on paper
************
transfiguration
sight unseen the
sight of me in
chapel pacing through
Peter as though
for penance
God is meant
a friend to
comfort but
recently its
felt dishonest
a masquerade
a malformation
Jan 5, 2016
Jan 5, 2016 at 7:19 PM UTC
God slips from
tongue as phlegm
from lung post-
cigarette
back to back
reel to reel
sitting *** to heel
palm to palm
praying
I've spent paychecks
laying pavement
into bedsheets
bearing teeth
biting holes into
free time
me time
with myself
waiting
twenty one years
stacking unread
newspaper new with
news not bothering
with digestion
to treat the text
as words on paper
************
transfiguration
sight unseen the
sight of me in
chapel pacing through
Peter as though
for penance
God is meant
a friend to
comfort but
recently its
felt dishonest
a masquerade
a malformation
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