Category: atheism

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ATM

Post author By aayoung
Post date November 22, 2020
2 Comments on ATM

They

will sell you

candy cigarettes,

insulin,

Camel Wides,

chemotherapy,

God,

nicotine patches,

life insurance,

and a bronze casket

all

in one lifetime.

Tags #2020, #pandemic, #protests, #villainny, Appalachia, Art, civil rights, consumerism, Corruption, death, Society

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absent without leave

who can sleep

through the raging silence

of all our canceled parties

Tags #2020, #incompetentpresident, #pandemic, #plaguepresident, #protests, #villainny, civil rights, Corruption, death, failure, Society

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old time religion

my parents were screaming

at each other

in Baptist curses

doors slamming

phones torn asunder

sounds of a home splitting apart at the roofbeams

my father throwing the floor model television out the front door

and one frightened sister

smuggling me out a bedroom window to another protective sister

that may not have all happened on the same night

it was so long ago &

this wasn’t constant

not your average weeknight at the Young’s house

but it’s always the first time

that matters most

Tags autobiography, depression, Domestic Violence, mania, misogyny, parenting styles, Southern Gothic, Survival

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black veil

we were

never married

yet somehow

i still became

his widow

Tags baseball, death, love, pizza, religion

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Dinner at the Sizzler

if purgatory

is a soup kitchen line

in a catholic church

hell

is serving up grub

on the corner of 8th & vine

southern baptists

pulling up

in their tax exempt jesus wagon

to serve homeless people

hot chili in july

heaven, happens

in Cincinnati

when pigs fly

Tags Cincinnati, heat, Hell, homelessness, July, Porkopolis, religion, summer

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good takeout

little things get left

behind

that’s where love hides

when you least expect

it’s just tears over pepperoni and onions

Tags love, pizza, star

atheism girl stuff poetry religion science theism

paper dolls

Critic: “Your poetry has taken on religious overtones as of late…”

Me: “Yes, as have I.”

Critic: “Why?”

Me: “I suppose it is a condition arisen from having played paper dolls with death my entire life…”

Tags Belief, death, godhead, paper dolls, poetry, religion, Survival

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