No Angels

By Kevin Ridgeway

June 17, 2019 ✍ Poetry poem unrhymed

Kevin Ridgeway is the author of "Too Young to Know" (Stubborn Mule Press). A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, he lives and writes in Long Beach, CA.

No Angels

Mom named her sons
for gift from god
and sent from heaven
both of them grew up
to be atheists and
laugh at make believe
places Mom could
have died and moved
upstairs to and we
vote Democrat and
we listen to the
Wu Tang Clan
now because
this world is ours.

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