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| Rasta Jesus |
| by Jared Ward |
| hanging on our wall
beneath clear plastic, surrounded by a cheap black frame, he held his hands out, palms crayola peach, open. a rainbow grew like a halo in his wake, black skin completing the spectrum. from the very first moment he perfected the room and I can still see tony’s face disgusted by the very thought, as if vision taints blood and somehow he’d been infected with an ebony virus. white people are funny sometimes… …four a.m. on a sunday, sleep lurking around sunrise, alone with jesus in a roomful of friends probably alone with jesus. he sighs at my question, pulls me close and I feel his strong arms around my shoulders, heart beating against my cheek, the oily scent of dreadlocks and sweat filling my nose and I breathe it in deeply. nothing in words, but my eyelashes fluttering on his white linen shirt whisper i wish my god were as cool as you… |
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| June 2009 |
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