1. a man in relation

to his child or children.

2. (often as a title

or form of address)

a priest.

I did not find god in my father

and I did not find a father

in God. I found, instead,

a picture of a man with teeth

as white as priest’s robes,

as white as perfect clouds.

I called him /Leonard/,

that man, the sperm donor.

What does God say about

men like him? What does

He say about children

who live like me?

Tomorrow I will redefine

Father, and priest, and God.

I will drink the son’s blood

like syrupy medicine;

I will spend Sunday morning

digging knees into the carpet,

and clasp my hands, bow my head,

prepare for death

or salvation, both.

I will hope for /never/

and watch time drain this photo

of color and warmth,

the skin that matches mine

lightening into a bleached

image of God, so

what will God say about

himself?

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dead man. dead man.

red white and blue man.

blue face, red hands;

why does that man stand?

no black, no brown,

no ugly background.

no scream, no sound,

a heart that won’t pound.

he sleeps, he’s dead,

a corpse in a bed.

we burn his past

and spread all the ash.

that red, that blood,

that brown, that mud,

white man, white man,

bleach him, white man.

no master, no mistress,

no mister, no misses,

no flag and no country,

just ugly and ugly.

blue face, red hands;

why does that man stand?

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