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The Prayer Vendor (Free verse) by Enkidu

The corners hide him, standing there in absolution. He greets you with sincerity, and deil's smiles become his martyrs. There are craven deprecations from the callers, and daring, fellow-feeling prayers to ponder on, unresolved. Now, the mortal angels rend the sky to find him sitting on heavy weather; the vitiating veil. They curtail their graces. And the Vendor whiles away his wares to poorer folk who stand in queue: the drudge and the march, with little miracles to desire.

Enkidu 12-Jan-06/10:31 PM
I despise using dictionaries and thesauri unless I'm looking up the spelling of a word. By the way, a deprecation is a sort of prayer. Also, I used deil's (the devil's) smiles as a metaphor for the people who the Vendor makes suffer.




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