AMEN
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Jefferson Adams
Jefferson Adams is a freelance writer living in San Francisco. His
poems, essays, and photographs have appeared in Antioch Review, Blue
Mesa Review, CALIBAN, Hayden's Ferry Review, Huffington Post, the
Mississippi Review, and Slate among others.
By Jefferson Adams
Published on 02/4/2003
Lord, let this world choke
on its ragged masses,
let it gag on its damned,
its guilty and its guiltless--no,
no innocent souls, guide them all
hand in hand, not to heaven
on its ragged masses,
let it gag on its damned,
its guilty and its guiltless--no,
no innocent souls, guide them all
hand in hand, not to heaven
Lord, let this world choke
on its ragged masses,
let it gag on its damned,
its guilty and its guiltless--no,
no innocent souls, guide them all
hand in hand, not to heaven
but to some bright spot
of land, of their own,
where they can be the last
to see the world's darkness fall
and let them rest there, all
and be whole.
Copyright © Jefferson Adams, 2002. All Rights Reserved.
on its ragged masses,
let it gag on its damned,
its guilty and its guiltless--no,
no innocent souls, guide them all
hand in hand, not to heaven
but to some bright spot
of land, of their own,
where they can be the last
to see the world's darkness fall
and let them rest there, all
and be whole.
Copyright © Jefferson Adams, 2002. All Rights Reserved.