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T It Ain't Natural1 ^ (for my good friend, James Calvin Goode)|| \ The preacher's saying death is natural It ain't It wouldn't hurt like this if it was He don't look natural like I heard some say lying in that casket I never saw him lying still The crowd ain't natural people around where he was were happy, talking, sharing nobody's glad to be here The praying mantis treks across a street The crickets play at the church foundation But the hand that penned a thousand truths is stilled It ain't natural —Jenny Galloway Collins 69 ...

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