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the chocolate egg broken its yolk yellow with sin the serpentine tongue bites and screams “suffer the fools” but at the sash painted red broken bread chalice of wine terror on stoop can’t step inside the living room the firstborn dies the firstfruit thrives graveclothes neatly folded 4/14/2020 Brian Strand’s STRAND PICK 12 Poetry Contest The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. (Jesus’ words) John 10:10 NIV But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. 1 Corinthians 15:20-21 NIV