Pride

Where once I said, “Wow”,
I now say, “Gawdammit.”
Another virgin metaphor
Stolen from my future works.
Reading depresses me.

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Power

She says I make her cry –
Louder than he ever managed –
With my tongue and long fingers
So used to reading aloud and writing.

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Prayer

Thank God for Protection. It covers
The riskiness of digging someone
Else’s property without permit.

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Penance

No longer do I part my hair.
A man with an axe is loose.

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Peace

Poetry sucks like a fallen pornstar.