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A Krakovian Conversion by Stewart Stafford
Stone columns on my grave;
Gravity no longer tethers me,
Procession for a fallen saviour,
Our charmed lives split apart.
A cuckoo among darkest eagles,
Faustian profiteer's bloody deal,
Became a phoenix dove in flight,
On the road home to my new form.
An unbroken cypher laid to rest,
A muttered debate behind prayers;
Faux Messiah, who saved himself?
Ransoms paid by a bankrupt sage?
© Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.
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Elegies are poems dedicated to the dead. The American hillbilly(assuming we can use that word for the white working class) isn't dead; she is just poor.
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― Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
― Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
