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littlebirdie · 4486 days ago · link · · parent · post: I'm a crummy poet, but I'm writing a poem a day for 2013
poem for January 10 I took St. Jude
to have and hold
as my confirmation ranger
in a clapboard dusty pew church
I attended at parental gunpoint. C'mon Saint J,
I thought under wafer breath
as I slouched to the altar
so a bishop could lay fear
on my mohawk stiff
with egg white misery. C'mon Saint J,
patron of blender dump life
and safety pin girls.
Give me an empty uterus,
hip music parents,
some sign you sip my confessor's cup. I bent my head shy,
let God's man brush my forehead
with heavy silver precision,
and I rose saved lashes
to see his distaste.