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And this is "Hymn."

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H-Y-M-N, "Hymn."

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"The pink troll of our decade
snickers from under its bridge,

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as the country goes
crazy for Jesus,

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and the grey men in the
alley start to stink.

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I am humming under my
breath in the key of doubt,

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as you pray to the god of
washrooms, make us clean.

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Each day's bitter ribbon
and its calculus of light.

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I sing, o bastard of
my heart, be still.

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Your god is the god of
mirrors, and the house

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a paper wasp builds is paper.

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There are broken slats
in every tiny thing.

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The pupa and its carapace.

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The celery salt, the stalk.

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The way my birchy
skin peels off.

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Your hennaed hand.

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Your hand.

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How grief runs through
me like a pack of eels.

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Silver and colloidal, the
tides have seen us coming

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and turn back.

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Like them, our work is breakage.

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To plunder to from fro.

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Inside us something
pliant, soiled,

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bearing the dent of thumbs."

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