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green skies
fall tornadoes

everyone dying in swimming
pools
everyone dying outside with
smiles

it’s been raining here
so we get the water we need
from god’s cupped hands

there isn’t any hot water
but we’re told
we don’t need it

we were drunk for a week
the only ones not dying
in the pools
or smiling when we left

we were accused
and stalled out in love
but the sun and its partner
has no understanding
so let’s bleed out the moon
and all the arms that
wouldn’t let us breathe at night

if
when
it comes
(I know it will)
we can plead ignorance
offer up our sexual organs
to see if that’s enough
of an effort in repenting