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Elegy for a Puritan Conscience, by Alan Dugan

He's one of my new favorites, and this bitter little pill shows what he does best, afflict the comfortable . I wish I'd been able to meet him . I closed my ears with stinging bugs and sewed my eyelids shut but heard a sucking at the dugs and heard my parents rut. I locked my jaw with rusty nails and cured my tongue in lime but ate and drank in garbage pails and said these words of crime. I crushed my scrotum with two stones and drew my penis in  but felt your wound expect its own and fell in love with sin.