Thank you to Editor Mark Antony Rossi for publishing this poem in Ariel Chart.

http://arielchart.blogspot.com/2019/05/arguing-just-for-arguments-sake.html



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Arguing Just For Arguments Sake

My grandmother had

the sacred heart portrait

above her bed.

It never raised the dead

of my grandfather,

nor my grandparents’ first born,

but better the devil you know

than the devil you don’t,

and the endless banter continued 

throughout the years,

as she demanded the return of what was hers, 

and He insisted

on keeping possession 

of what was His.

I strongly suspect

that this debate was resolved 

when she took her last breath.