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lonnie's prayer

ain't none of them things
what could have been

all what i wished
all what i thought up
and dreamt
and wanted
and hungered for

and this thing
now
can't be shook

and all these years,
all this decrepit self
and these aches
and me so small
and so goddamned ready
i can taste the quiet

and no wiser for any of it,
not really,
and not free even yet

and, lord, if heaven ain't real,
then what?
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