if you tell yourself often enough, all of it can be true<\/p>\n
from waist size to waste sizing up the spaces<\/p>\n
open to spill into<\/p>\n
and take over<\/p>\n
until the next moments cannot be contained<\/p>\n
in over-flowing graves<\/p>\n
filled with secrets everyone knew<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
if you tell yourself often enough, all of it can be true<\/p>\n
in between the silences after confessions<\/p>\n
of horrors even God couldn’t see<\/p>\n
under the black and white curtains of righteousness –<\/p>\n
or hate<\/p>\n
sometimes I can’t keep them straight<\/p>\n
or separated into columns on lying ledgers<\/p>\n
stained with Indian ink<\/p>\n
on the fingers of all those who count copper pennies<\/p>\n
kept in porcelain so the other piggies couldn’t see how<\/p>\n
if you tell yourself often enough all of it can be true when<\/p>\n
all of them get to press their hard noses against the soft cheek of Christ<\/p>\n
whispering those truths told often enough<\/p>\n
all of it can be yourself, too.<\/p>\n
(c) r. l. elke<\/p>\n
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