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Sydney Lea: Heterodox
And which of you by being anxious can add
one cubit to his span of life?
Matthew 6:27
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A and B would scarcely remember
When the two weren’t friends A knows of B
That after grim chemo his hair came back
The doctors reckoned they’d licked his disease
B’s tall A is sufficiently shorter
He never till lately noticed B’s round
Of pattern baldness Yes his hair is back
And out of sight A kneels on the ground
The cancer’s back too God if you’re there
Thinks A If you can truly do wonders
Let B grow into a natural baldness
A knows his is no conventional prayer
And conventionally worries it’s wrong to kneel
And beg with his being’s every morsel
That B will be thus strangely blessed
Real baldness all of a sudden that crucial
Copyright 2022 Sydney Lea
Sydney Lea’s many honors include the 2021 Vermont Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts.
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