Fall 2019

inri Gerardo Lamadrid The computer room at my elementary school had a door no one used with a crucifix hanging over it it looked down upon swivel chairs, cardboard desks keyboards and brooms – it looked down and said why why have you forsaken me? and I glanced at it sometimes others I’d stare head on, and say what is that cross hiding floating over that door (when no one knows where it leads to or if it even leads somewhere) Beneath it I read of how your people in babylon had sacrificed a sacred lamb and brushed its blood on the lunettes of their homes or even the doors themselves all for protection, just to warn the angel of death that the people of god live here.

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