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Confession

Kenneth DiMaggio

What seemed like a curled up
piece of toilet paper your Dad
put on his chin after a nick
made by the Shick safety
razor was a moth slowly
crawling along one of
the velvet folds of the
curtains in the booth
where you had to make
your weekly confession

And if you barely heard
the number of Hail Marys
and Our Fathers the priest
told you to recite
for your penance

you now saw how
Nature had begun
nibbling at a church
whose plush velvet
interior was more like
an old funeral home
that would never again
wreathe a coffin in

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