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A Response To Michelle Faulkner's Poem, Unstable

Knock knock knocking on heaven's door 
my knuckles are bleeding and still, 
you ask me, nothing more 
Thick red solid walls erected between us 
you labeled me and shipped me off to another Country ...
leaving me with nothing more 
Defused, deprogramed, debugged, I walk away 
from your locked-in displaced shrug
I am held in a makeshift prison of my own,  
though I tell you everything, you tell me nothing more; 

Knock knock knocking on Satan's door 
Sanctimonious roars from a placating hypocritical God  
no Pious gesture on my part, I am not conforming 
this misshapen piece of bread you offer me 
doesn't feed my aching belly, 
I show you everything I'm feeling while you, 
escort me, out the door.  

ps I wish to thank Michelle for speaking such cantillate truth.

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