Poem inspired by Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood, A Good Man Is Hard To Find and Other Stories, and The Violent Bear It Away
Nameless unplaced guilt expected a secret welcome. All faces were the same - made for money, always on the move, like a ghost sprung upright in his coffin. The English words and the Polish words coming at each other: the conversation embarrassed her in the way sex had her mother. The Hard Lesson from Life degrees are cursed with believing. It takes guts to listen.
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