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"Field."

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"It has sealed its windows
and removed its signs.

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Religion has shut its doors
without further notice.

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Prayers from around
the world have

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breathed their last breath.

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Some have asserted
disbelief in the believers.

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Others have conceded this
belief in themselves.

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Many have complained of
mismanagement and abuse.

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Almost all have planned
centuries of exhaustion.

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Prayers in every language
have severed their every tie.

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They want to go home.

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They wish to return to their
places of birth and gestation.

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They, too, wish to sing the
story of their survival.

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Yet, not a pair
of hands that held

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a prayer could be recalled, or
a solitary voice that passed

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through a prayer identified.

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Not a birth or a death
could be summoned.

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And so the prayers have
detached themselves

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from their bindings
and their books.

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They have let the wind
dictate their fate,

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and they have withered
like November leaves.

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But not all.

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Some have remained,
landing on the heads

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of angry worshippers,
whose fury at the prayers

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could hardly be contained.

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And these prayers have
burrowed themselves

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into each of their temples.

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They have morphed into
appendages weighing down

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their bodies.

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And now, there is no
extracting of the prayers

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from the minds of the angry,
nor is there any remedy

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for the myriad of infections
developing and spreading

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from one believer to the next.

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And so the faithful have
been herded into houses

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of worship long abandoned.

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And under one roof, angry
worshippers of all faiths

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sighed their last sigh.

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And under one roof,
prayers that have

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parted with their every word
to the rain, and the snow,

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and the daily habits of
man now touch the wordless.

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One body brushing up
against the other,

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waiting for a pair of hands to
hold it, a voice to claim it."

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