Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
By JAMES PARKER | August 15, 2007
Lines upon the arrest of a Catholic priest in Frederick, Colorado, for jogging in the nude before sunrise
Sweat breaks across my bosom like the dawn.
I trundle through the empty gates of morning
Free and redeemed and brimming with God’s love.
All heaven is my jockstrap, officer.
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