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manna
the kind that doesn’t keep ‘til the next day

God
forgive us
and help us
for
our daily bread
please
and we might forgive but need the bread
regardless
and there
is
something about stones given for bread as in
don’t do that
but
feed the children
and feed everyone
as
a spiritual need
that our bodies
serve
and that connection is the way it is
the way we are
and we have the capacity
to give
as well as to consumer
to do the sharing of our lives
which we
are also made to do

and so forgive
and
don’t offer stones though if begrudgingly
to give the bread as well
or
if we’re merchants sell the bread
for us
to take home

or to bake
maybe with interest
maybe with need because
this is
the world we know
in which we must make what we shall use
and provide
to use

and this is family
this is neighborhood
and
for some of us
what we resort
to
when the war or the wildfire is on

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