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Change

By Wendy Videlock

Change is the new,
 
improved
 
word for god,
 
lovely enough
to raise a song
 
or implicate
 
a sea of wrongs,
mighty enough,
 
like other gods,
 
to shelter,
bring together,
 
and estrange us.
 
Please, god,
we seem to say,
 
change us.
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