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be a prayer wheel
be a bicycle, playing cards
tucked between the spokes

reciting endlessly
please God please
tick tick whirr

be the ocean
waves rushing out
and surging in

undertow pulling prayer
to the depths and back
tumbled like glass

be a processor
running a subroutine
of constant yearning

do this for years
all the days
of your life

be an oyster
turning what hurts
into a pearl