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Howie Good<\/h1>\n

Benediction<\/span><\/h1>\n

Love everything that lives
\nand be fair to all the parts
\nand do not have a hierarchy,<\/p>\n

but should the uniforms come
\nfor you under cover of night
\neager to convey you into smoke,<\/p>\n

resolve to become like the drunks
\nwho, when sufficiently enraged,
\ncan just shrug off the paralyzing effects<\/p>\n

of being tasered, or like the wind
\nthat dies one moment only to return
\nthe next as poems and explosions.<\/p>\n

\n

Howie Good <\/strong><\/span>is the author of most recently of <\/em>Stick Figure Opera from Cajun Mutt Press.<\/em><\/p>\n

\n

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Howie Good Benediction Love everything that lives and be fair to all the parts and do not have a hierarchy, but should the uniforms come for you under cover of night eager to convey you into smoke, resolve to become like the drunks who, when sufficiently enraged, can just shrug off the paralyzing effects of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[29],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\nHowie Good "Benediction" - 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