with antibiotics and orange juice on paper
1:
faith is unwell and six feet underneath
but her death certificate
1&2: doesn't look right
2:
who has complete confidence in paper promises
put out with frayed paper mouths
true, I've puffed tobacco
rolled up into bible pages out
1&2: and I've asked you not to pray for me
2:
1:
if a child dies from a treatable sickness
but no one files a proper autopsy report
is spirituality violent?
is skepticism the next diagnosable imperfection?
then how can there be healing?
1&2: if god keeps killing so many children in Idaho
1(p): hymns swell around 200 graves
water droplets on a forehead
blood of the lamb at the table
incense in the air potent with want and wish
unique consciousness /lost in last breaths
(^ overlap w ^)
2(f): death is not heaven but all the doctors are demonized
all physicians be damned
the coroner knows a distinct sorrow here
we're all ghosts and an end goes on haunted
1:
here
2:
in Idaho
1(f): here
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