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the Age of Innocence

Ms. N. A’Yara Stein

A lie is interesting because of what it reveals
about the liar; it’s not a kind wisdom.
To win you must be willing to lose
this truth which lies on the bottom of the lie.
You used your best discretion; I used mine.
Grace is not always required
so long as one knows the basic steps.
I stand at Armageddon to do battle with my lord –
I like to atone for my sins, real or imagined.
Just say I’m old-fashioned and leave it at that.
You’re out collecting china with eyes full of lashes
so I wonder if you love me still the same
or if I’m merely the last and fading plaintive
memory in a long line of high strung ghosts.
An atheist, you believe we serve our baser selves:
What you can touch, you can touch.
Somewhere, you are out there in the snow.
Whiteness covers for a time your hairy sin.
Snow falls deep around in waist high drifts;
I lose sight of you, buried in this dear old heaven.

with thanks to Franz Baskett

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