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Prayer for Envy

Canvas envies paint.

The bullhorn envies

the voice without need

of a battery.

The diamond envies our indifference for coal.

Pavement envies the boot, whereas

the stiletto envies grass

which is more true than

the stiletto envies the boot

or that pavement

could envy grass.

The needle envies

the wound it closes, the scalpel

envies skin.

The ground the air

for how it moves; the Earth

its steady orbit.

The dead envy the living,

above all, for their smell.

Envy

envies only itself.

In a song, all silence is envied by its notes.

Notes being nothing

but noise without a pause.

The hand

envies the hangnail

which harms

without intent.