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The Antidote to Pain

for Shannon Davenport

The antidote to pain is not anesthesia.

The antidote to pain is poetry.

And poetry takes time and space

and silence and dreams.

But before there can be poetry

there has to be stories:

stories of hunger

of craziness

of shame

of a father long dead

of healing the sick

of casting out demons

of taking a stand

of finding a long forgotten path.

But before there can be stories

there has to be mercy,

sweet

life-giving

mercy.