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The caw returned to first wakening.
My heart sank to eating cookies on a diet.
I love the birds, especially the coo,
the miracle I found in morning.
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Doves to my surprise, in light of my eyes
could chase crows away,
and a hummingbird made me smile
flittering out my window.
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On acquiring my exercise bike,
I glimpsed the news
wiping sweat from my brow,
still reading Anne Sexton.
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Negativity seeped in,
like numbers of sins
and persecutors of time
marched across my peripheral vision.
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And I peddled,
wondering how stupidity
and the human race are so closely related,
I felt a bite of discrimination.
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Religious signs appear on buildings.
Memory makes connection, a hotel explosion,
a familiar bite, in recent years.
The tooth marks of a deity,
schizophrenic signs of war.
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HG Wells told a story,
of destruction planted in time.
I wonder how the future and the past
entwine when science and religion
become a game in the age of new technology.