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A Prayer for Kurtis Cummings

Say a prayer for old Kurtis Cummings: went out in his rowboat and got lost out at sea. Left his wife and two young children waiting standing at communion with the Reverend Jerry Lee. Picked up his old shotgun and … Continue reading

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God is a Lonely Whore

I am so in love although I have never seen; my eyes are full of things my heart denies me: colored visions wrought in the language of amour, the word made flesh in the weak metaphor of wretched, babbling men … Continue reading

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