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The Righteous One

Joy is a sure sign of the Spirit.

The secret handshake

the righteous one never learned.

Why should he when he is

so sure of his own secret

that makes him better than others.

His native tongue is cynicism,

which has no word for trust,

but a hundred for the taste of gasoline.

He has clear focus on chapter and verse

but misses the poetry, the ambiguity

in the totality of God’s library.

In quitting drink he is dying of thirst.

In his tight grasp he has lost his grip. 

But, nimble ones can shake with the Spirit.

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