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Prayer for Happiness

When your father dies and leaves you

more money than you anticipated

can you admit there is not in his death

some fickle breeze of how easy it is

to embrace happiness?

Liquid,

hard to hold, happiness is an acid

not long contained, it leaks

through any trap. Assumes

any shape:

Happiness comes to the hand

holding the knife that slits the throat.

Happiness in the eye of the kiddie

porn find online.

Relief is bedfellows with happiness

when the car crash fells someone

else’s daughter, when cancer

takes down a killer who we breezily

forget is loved by family.

Each time we celebrate

the downfall of a dictator

we drag happiness through our muck

by its collar so that happiness

will not recognize itself.