{"id":12205,"date":"2011-04-27T16:00:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T21:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=12205"},"modified":"2011-04-27T16:00:04","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T21:00:04","slug":"litany-of-our-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=12205","title":{"rendered":"Litany of Our Lady"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Brenda Marie Osbey<\/h2>\n<div>\n<h4>LITANY OF OUR LADY<\/h4>\n<address>\n<\/address>\n<address>our lady of the sidewalks<br \/>\nthe pavements and the crumbling brick<br \/>\nthe mortar rock and oyster-shell roads<br \/>\nour lady of sorrows and sadnesses<br \/>\nof intolerable agonies tolerated daily<br \/>\nof drifters grifters scrappers and scrapers<br \/>\nour lady of dudes and dicks and pricks<br \/>\nof petty thieves and of whoremongers<br \/>\nof piss-swelled gutters<br \/>\nand dives<br \/>\nand the grimed over windows knotty-haired children peer through;<br \/>\nour lady<br \/>\nour lady of boys shot down in the dark<br \/>\ndying in open lots along lesser used roads leading out of town<br \/>\nof old men beneath interstates<br \/>\nsitting, standing, walking a block or so away and back;<br \/>\nour lady of lost and found and forgotten<br \/>\ncast-off ditched<br \/>\nof what was and never will be again<br \/>\nof aggrieved and bereft<br \/>\naccused indicted surrendered up to death<br \/>\nof old tar-colored women in plain or checkered housedresses<br \/>\ntelling aloud their rosaries and rosaries<br \/>\nand rosaries of faith;<br \/>\nour lady of ladies<br \/>\nand of church-ladies-in-waiting<br \/>\nof young girls with hard uncertain breasts<br \/>\nand promises of school and school<br \/>\nand more school even than that;<\/address>\n<address>\n<\/address>\n<address>our lady of go-cups and fictionary tours<br \/>\ncigar bars absinthe bars<br \/>\nof coffee houses open all night and churches closed all day<br \/>\nfor-admittance-please-ring-bell-and-wait<br \/>\nand wait;<br \/>\nour lady of antiques dealers dealing in saints<br \/>\nin crosses, weeping cemetery angels, prayer cards<br \/>\nin praline mammies, cigar shoppe indians<br \/>\nin dwarf nigger jockeys whose heads have been lopped off<br \/>\nand stand<br \/>\none hand outstretched, one cocked at the hip<br \/>\nseeming not to be waiting but bargaining dealing<br \/>\nfor the return of their heads<br \/>\ntheir heads their perfectly round perfectly lovely<br \/>\nlittle nappy nappy heads;<\/address>\n<address>\n<\/address>\n<address>our lady<br \/>\nour lady of tired buildings listing to one side<br \/>\nand brick-between-cypress posts that simply will stand<br \/>\nas houses themselves give way around falling-down stairs<br \/>\nleaving only a something<br \/>\na memory of a structure<br \/>\nof spanish-tiled roofs and batten shutters<br \/>\nin a swamp<br \/>\nof a city<br \/>\nof ironworks and of plaster<br \/>\no, lady lady<br \/>\nour lady of anything<br \/>\nat all<\/address>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brenda Marie Osbey LITANY OF OUR LADY our lady of the sidewalks the pavements and the crumbling brick the mortar rock and oyster-shell roads our lady of sorrows and sadnesses of intolerable agonies tolerated daily of drifters grifters scrappers and scrapers our lady of dudes and dicks and pricks of petty thieves and of whoremongers of piss-swelled gutters and dives and the grimed over windows knotty-haired children peer through; 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