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Oh Adlai,
Can you see what we’ve done?
Do you hear the clinking chips
of the money changers?
Would you send your only begotten
Stevenson to overturn the poker tables
in your house, where liars and thieves
earn their names as such.

Or were you one of us once?
Did you glare over the top of your
junk hand and deceive your friends
for the sake of the win?

Would you do it again, Adlai?

Oh Adlai,
Can you see what we’ve become?
Do you hear the squeaking springs
we call “college dating”?
Would you send us a savior to
excuse our behavior: we don’t want
to change, but don’t cast a stone, even
though our sins are already known.

Or were you one of us once?
Did you whisper words of wine
and fever to make her a believer;
the very first convert to your cause.

I know that it was what it was, Adlai.

Adlai, I thank you for the gifts you give,
mainly, a place to live that has floors
and doors and running water, but if you had
a child, why couldn’t it have been a daughter?

Description
Oh Adlai,
Can you see what we’ve done?
Do you hear the clinking chips
of the money changers?
Would you send your only begotten
Stevenson to overturn the poker tables
in your house, where liars and thieves
earn their names as such.

Or were you one of us once?
Did you glare over the top of your
junk hand and deceive your friends
for the sake of the win?

Would you do it again, Adlai?

Oh Adlai,
Can you see what we’ve become?
Do you hear the squeaking springs
we call “college dating”?
Would you send us a savior to
excuse our behavior: we don’t want
to change, but don’t cast a stone, even
though our sins are already known.

Or were you one of us once?
Did you whisper words of wine
and fever to make her a believer;
the very first convert to your cause.

I know that it was what it was, Adlai.

Adlai, I thank you for the gifts you give,
mainly, a place to live that has floors
and doors and running water, but if you had
a child, why couldn’t it have been a daughter?