Altered by an Altar

from The Same Deserted Sea by Christian James Guarin

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It's a given, Jane, I won't get into heaven if I am inclined to follow the times that I'm in. So, momma please don't ask of me to see the son again. I have found that ground with nothing left to give. I'm praying to the ghosts of Alabama from the water in the Gulf of Mexico. Altered by an altar to the faults of ol' Montana, momma told me, "Boy there's something you should know. And you may learn the lessons in these unforgiving questions."

"Dear Lord, it's been years. Can I still call you dear? Can you hear the broken spoke by dying men? Baptised twice, can I afford to price of double sin? Or, must I swim the holy river once again?"

I saw him standing there, a glare so distant. With the choir of a liar bound to start, mad half drunk on whiskey, he asked me "Brother, don't you miss me? Don't you want to know the ways you broke my heart?"

The southern gentleman has uncovered once again the widowed dove. Sell him antebellum, tell him devils can't afford that kind of love. If hell and him are different, then in sentiment I'm sure that they both hold the thought of new south urgencies, the need to grasp the riches from the old."

And I, for one, am one who does exactly what he's told.

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from The Same Deserted Sea, released June 9, 2011

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