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<p><span class="line">Now the ticking clocks scare me.</span><span class="line">The <a href="mountain.html">empty</a> rooms, clock towers, belfries;</span><span class="line">I am terrified by them all.</span></p>
<p><span class="line">I really used to enjoy going to church,</span><span class="line">singing in the choir, listening to the sermon.</span><span class="line">Now the chairs squeal like dying pigs—</span></p>
<p><span class="line">It was the boar that did it.</span><span class="line"><a href="telemarketer.html">Fifteen feet</a> from me that night</span><span class="line">in the grass, rooting for God</span><span class="line">knows what, finding me instead.</span></p>
<p><span class="line">I ran, not knowing where or how,</span><span class="line">not looking for his pursuit of me.</span><span class="line">I ran to God’s front door, found</span><span class="line">it locked, found the <a href="i-am.html">house</a> empty</span></p>
<p>with a note saying, “Condemned.”</p>
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