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I pray again that the earth will take itself

I hear a heavy truck on the street and dread that the onion grass has mechanized and is becoming aggressive.

It’s the day after Easter and I pray again that the earth will take itself back sooner and save me from yard work,

the way I remember, from when I was a kid, the End Timers praying for the bombs to fall
and justify their faith to the poor neighborhoods in town

where the couches burned when the basketball game went the wrong way.

[Daybook 2026 // Spring 4.6.26]

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Mick Parsons
Mick Parsons
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Poet. Essayist. Fictioner. Steamboat fireman. Bit of a grackle.

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of signs n rumors of signs

Outside of Murfreesboro at a truck stop. I paid cash for an Apple Danish and an ill-advised ham and turkey sandwich. The woman at the checkout was complaining about the lack of spare change. I told her about the quarter shortage and how no one is spending it, and how a lot of businesses moved to cashless payments. She shook her head and said “Lord yes. It’s true. That’s in the Bible.” She told me to be careful as I left. She was very earnest.

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