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SHADRACH, MESHACH, ABEDNEGO

HANANIAH, MISHAEL, AZARIAH

Come on, Magic. Let’s go to the train station.

It’s our turn to greet people. Others have gone

to schoolyards, to office parties, any and all

ports of call where someone might be found

standing alone against a wall.

You know, when the great train of freedom comes,

they say no one will be left behind. No one.

Not the least of sparrows. Don’t give up, get ready.

Prepare ourselves, get ready. Here we go, get ready.

Maybe it was to learn how to love

Maybe it was to learn how to leave

Maybe it was for the games we played

Maybe it was to learn how to choose

Maybe it was to learn how to lose

Maybe it was for the love we made

Love is everything they said it would be

Love made sweet and sad the same

But love forgot to make me too blind to see

You’re chickening out, aren’t you?

You’re chickening out or … is it me?

And as I came around the corner of the building, I saw

embedded in the wall, I saw a shell and I saw a pearl

and I saw a superhero’s cape and I saw a sword and

I saw the mighty word M — A — G — I — C. Which of course

spells ‘YES!' YES? I didn’t mean to say YES! The

universe did a martial arts move on me and tripped

me up on my own energy.

But since I’d said yes,

I found myself being led blindfolded through a

backyard in Oakland, California towards a chicken hut

and I braced for the fatal squawk.

And inside that chicken hut, that dark tent, they cut

the clothes from my body: my expensive black leather

jacket from New York; my expensive black jeans

from Paris, 10% lycra, perfect fit, long sought after;

and finally gone was my expensive thong. But I was

so desperate to lose the heaviness that had dogged

my trail since I had been a young girl that it finally

outweighed the ‘otherness'. And they sprinkled me

with some kind of magic water and incanted words in

a language I’d never heard before. And I don’t know if

the water or the words worked. I just know that I will

never, ever forget their kindness.

Let Go! Let Go!

Oh Mama, with what shall I keep warm?!

LET GO OF KEEPING WARM

TO WHICH MESHACH DREAMS BACK

CONSIDER THE LILIES OF THE FIELD.

AND SHE CAME AROUND THE CORNER OF THE

BUILDING AND SHE SAW A BENCH. AND SHE LOOKED

UP AT THE SUN AND IT WAS HOT. AND SHE FELT THE

WIND AND IT WAS STRONG. AND SHE TOOK OFF HER

CLOAK AND LAID IT ON THE BENCH.

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