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"What Year Was Heaven Desegregated?"
Jeffrey McDaniel

Watching the news about Diallo, my eight year-old cousin, Jake,

asks why don’t they build black people

with bulletproof skin? I tell Jake there’s another planet, where

humans change colors like mood rings.

You wake up Scottish, and fall asleep Chinese; enter a theatre

Persian, and exit Puerto Rican. ( Read more... )

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"The Foxhole Manifesto"
Jeffrey McDaniel

There are no atheists in foxholes.
--old Christian proverb

The first god I remember was a Santa Claus god, who you only
turned to around Christmas time,
who you tried to butter up, and then got mad at if you didn't
get what you wanted.
That didn't make sense. I knew if there was a god, he could see
through us, like ( Read more... )

"Exile ( Read more... )

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"The Everlasting Staircase"
Jeffrey McDaniel

When the call came, saying twenty-four hours to live,
my first thought was: can't she postpone her exit

from this planet for a week? I've got places to do,
people to be. Then grief hit between the ribs,

said disappear or reappear more fully. so I boarded ( Read more... )

"Letter To The Woman Who Stopped Writing Me Back ( Read more... )