Dear Personal Care Department God by Chris Kads | One Poem Only
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Dear Personal Care Department God
Chris Kads
After Lancee Whetman
God of the Personal Care Department,
please grant me musk. Grant me
the strength of “Steel Courage” -
buffness in a bottle. Let my
body be a vessel of “dragon’s breath”
and “warrior’s blood”. Allow me,
like men, to be baptized
in wet swagger, to have my
preconceived softness
wash away with the scent
of toughness.
Bless me,
with blindness in the face
of razors. Grant me
the normalization
of forest-y armpits
to pair with the scent of
“Sasquatch Foot”.
And, please, oh holy
Personal Care Department God,
revoke your commandments
and let the avoidance of “Secret”
and smoothness
not be a sin.
Amen.
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