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Bill Neumire

Sinners

Listen, the birds have words for people like us.
They're always panicked & rustling away
like confronted adulterers.
They call us infidels & slaves, salt mummies;
that's how we end
up in their apocrypha.
Thesis: they're spreading
the news of our original sin
& giving sermons on the fifth street
telephone wires about a god they've met
in the fog, one who keeps a dusty picture of his sons
& daughters tucked in a cloud heavy with rain.

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