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The Jesus Christ Law This piece has been published in Teen Ink's monthly print magazine.

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By Alyx C., Madison, AL
Photo credit: Jennifer M., Normal, IL
     Momma’s lies strut
click-click-click
like black high-heel shoes.
And you can tell
she’s made up her mind
once and for all.
Superman style.
Daddy says she’s brittle
like New York City
Tucked
away under the first of December.
Let her be.
Let Momma be.
’cause Momma’s
got ghosts
Snippin’ at her words!
Eyes gray as the Titanic child
sunk in the
Atlantic’s abyss.
God never lies
and Momma lives under
The Jesus Christ
Law.
She’s moppin’ up
penniless bridges,
Stuck
in 5th Avenue’s quicksand.
Daddy’s dropping the
car keys off
with those
black and white piano keys
tap dancing
along hobo’s street.
Meet his
mustache
in a grimace.
sizzle under the icy sand.
Momma’s sinking
without
Daddy’s car keys.
She’s bowling a
one-way ticket
to Alice and Wonderland city.
Strut in those high-heel shoes.
Daddy’s not going
anywhere.

This piece has been published in Teen Ink's monthly print magazine.This piece has also been published in Teen Ink's monthly print magazine.

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Lilliana H. said...
Apr. 7, 2009 at 9:24 pm:

Amazing. Reminds me of my mother. Or thats just how I want to relate it to me life. You seem so observative!

 
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DancingInTheRaen said...
Apr. 6, 2009 at 3:57 pm:

I absolutely love this. It's super fun to read aloud! It's sharp and tasty all the way around. One of the best poems I've read!

 
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Alexandra H. said...
Mar. 20, 2009 at 7:12 am:

brilliant

 
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vivaeno said...
Feb. 20, 2009 at 3:34 am:

This would be a great poem to perform...like slam poetry!

 
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LexyP said...
Feb. 14, 2009 at 3:56 am:

This poem is so true of family, and truth.

 
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Stormy15 said...
Dec. 23, 2008 at 6:45 pm:

I really don't understand what is happening in this poem, it's kinda just everywere and it really does'nt just focuse on one thing and all though that may make some people think that it makes it intense, it really does'nt it just means that they don't truly know what your trying to express,because there are alot of ways that this could be going and i'm not even sure that one of the ways a saw it was right and i'm just not truly sure that you got what you wanted to say in poem,

 
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Peace seeker said...
Dec. 22, 2008 at 1:16 am:

I really just don't understand this poem maybe you should try to make it more clear what you are talking about cause this just really isent clear to me ;)

 
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K.M.H. said...
Nov. 10, 2008 at 5:29 pm:

I love the rhythm of this poem.

 
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A.K. Neary said...
Oct. 17, 2008 at 7:52 pm:

That is a wonderful poem!

 
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DanieDelirium' said...
Sept. 26, 2008 at 3:32 am:

this is really good. I love the details. I can feel the writers emotions. I love it.

 
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