Wednesday, June 28, 2023

this country of polished chrome, these ancient ruins

 


made a flag from the bones

of dead soldiers, built a nation from

the skins of the natives

 

raped children in full sight of god

 

in houses of prayer

in houses of shame where the

water ran black

 

where the dogs ate what the

priests puked up

and we hid in alleyways

and we started fires where the

homeless slept

 

we were the bitter

hands of jesus

 

we had come to stone

his lover

 

she said pain was better

than feeling nothing at all







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