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Being a Poet

When I told him, he was like “oh my god”, and I was like
“oh my god”, and then we fell on our knees and
worshipped our continuing lives, we wept a libation into the
campus soil, thinking we would never lose this sense of holiness, of
benediction, and the light came down on us like
understanding, and we kept nothing back, but cried again,
aloud “oh my god”, and I took my pencil and scored my
belief across my chest, and he took his law-text, and beat the
corners into his temples in an ecstasy of deliverance and my
blood ran freely over my nipples, and his blood ran freely
down the sides of his face, and the ground there took in our
thick tears, our liquid blood and became the very mud of
our belief, the swamp of our blinding, devastating
revelation.

 

 

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