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Shane McCrae | 107 The hastily assembled angel followed The humans to their freedom Just he wondered like The eyes of the angels when they fol-­ lowed me after the angels shoved Me out of Heaven the angel followed them until They came upon a desert-­ colored city Surrounded by a wall of crumbling bricks Before which guards armed not with spears but sticks Stood and the humans in their freedom raised Their fingers to their mouths to say We have No food and the guards waved their empty hands To say There is no food in the city and poetry The Hastily Assembled Angel Meets the God of Human Freedom Shane McCrae 108 | Shane McCrae The humans in their freedom killed them both And pounded with their bloody fists on the splintering gates Which shook but didn’t break the angel watched as The humans in their freedom made a giant calf with A golden body and an iron head And slammed the calf into the gates Which shook and broke apart the angel saw the Humans in their freedom became as hungry then As any who had ever lived Hungrier than the humans in the city­ Who had fed on living in a city And the angel flew into the burning city And kneeled before the calf as he had seen So many humans kneel before the gods they Had made What god is this he wondered I kneel before knowing it is no god ...

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