(x = space)

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two brief poems, unrelated (well)

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Spirited

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What shall God

Have for us today?

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A new assignment?

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A day to read up

Instead?

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A list of prayer so long

Indeed

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Indeed

We’ll need the day,

Its focused energy for

Intercessions?

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A day to encounter

Creation

Specially,

To consider all the wonder

And to play?

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Or this day

Might be a day

Like all days

To love God and each other,

Not a suggestion

Or an option

But direction

Limited by human will

Alone

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Though

Admittedly

As people in the world

With

Myriad possibilities

There are days

When it’s hard

Or when it’s easier

To love

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Which might be why

There’s both

Expression

And redemption

Available

At will

All the time

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At the Bottom of the Hour

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Could we do the news

In halves

So that

There’s bad followed by

As much good?

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The readers

And

The ratings

Would be fine

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We sponsor and produce as if

We believe

Good is automatic

While bad

Is creative

And so (bad) more attention-worthy

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Though

The presumption is

Ironically

Disingenuous;

We know

By now

That bad is not

Exceptional

And good could stand more press

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So by halves

Coverage of good and bad

(for some reason

in

the discourse

bad then good),

Well,

It would not be

(hah)

So bad

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C L Couch

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