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Grandmother Talks
and evolution just ain’t so,
it’s evil-lution like that preacher
on the radio said yesterday morning
when I was drinking my coffee,
always have it black with a bite
of a unsalted poached egg and some butterless toast,
at least ways since my doctor told me
to lay off the salt,
bad for my blood pressure,
he says,
looks a lot like my boy
that doctor does,
I still don’t know where Jimmy gets those books,
the ones with those pictures of hairy men
comin’ up from the apes,
I tell him that there’s only one book for me,
and the Bible is the Word of God,
and He speaks to me when I am pulling down a can
of green beans from the pantry,
don’t you tell your mother,
‘cause her and them others,
with their cigarettes and their new ideas of what is right,
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