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May 16, 2018
In the Beginning
That poem is a beginning.
It is the beginning.
In the beginning was the Word
and the Word was with God.
My God is a Mexican Madonna at the border.
My God wears a do-rag and is a rapper.
My God wears a hijab and honors Ramadan.
My God is Palestinian, kosher, vegan, omnisexual.
My God is large.
Terrestrial,celestial, amphibious,intertidal.
That poem is a beginning.
11 lines
Prompt: Use the last line from the nearest book at hand to begin your poem. From Ursula K. LeGuin's translation of the Tao Te Ching.
Dark Goddess Tarot---III-The Black Madonna--Compassion and devotion make the impossible, possible.
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