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In Sacramental Jeans (in Honor of M.E.D.) | Poem

 
 
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n Sacramental Jeans

(in Honor of M.E.D.)


Unrepentant and utterly alive,

She proffered at the last

Siddhartha's flower,

So purple that time

No longer flows,

And thus redeemed a generation,

History, and every image

Of the just.


- David W. Mitchell
 

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