Timothy Devaney

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Bardo Exhibit at the County Fair

(admission is free)

It is said to be spiritual currency

absolving all liability

 

They gather before healer’s pulpit

an orgy of tongues in repentance

 

all southern twang & soft lights

for unleavened morsels of salvation

 

Death tends to be utter confusion in an

express lane for untimely departures

 

Currency and denominations fall silent

alone with the oddities of confession

a dark-velvet tollbooth

 

Rates are higher than ever but the gate

stands nigh for those willing to accept

 

without question dead metaphors

& forty fables of nomadic children

 

wandering a desert wilderness

of predatory televangelists

sporting big hair & serrated teeth

Timothy Devaney

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