April is National Poetry Month! Jeff Dolven, "Rituals"

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Swiped this one from The New Yorker. Jeff Dolven, "Rituals."

Washing your hands, trying the lock,
burning a hundred head of cattle
not to eat, washing your hands
again, trying the lock again,
talking forever to yourself,
saying the sorts of things the god
least can understand, who finally
figures this must be for me