Connie Wanek's On Speaking Terms
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Khaled Mattawa
Childhood Fridays
The mornings tormented me.
Why are you smiling?
The streets turned quiet, the stores
pulled down their serrated iron doors.
Prayers swirled in the air like vines
choking the neighborhood.
Perhaps I loved Thursdays too much—how
they fooled me into dreaming a different life.
Why are you still smiling at me?
How could I have known
that God made the world in six days,
and on the seventh
played dead.
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