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Bang! You're Dead
Afraid of flowers with eyes, ghosts,
& silence, you live with your mother,
wash your hands before each meal
in the evenings you hammer,
you hammer nails in the wall --
one for that girl who
scrubs beneath her breasts to
remove that familiar sour scent
one for your mother who
only speaks in tongues
one for your father who
put a bullet through his head --
(bang! you're dead)
faith is lost, you smash
the nativity scene
with the hammer --
the virgin Mary was the
hardest to clean up for
her eyes were trusting.
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