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So that’s my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me – a little ministry called love and happiness.

Al Green

A collected poems’ is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
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Collect Either Survival Testimonial
No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
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Child Everyone Fail Succeed Want
Uneasily the leaves fall at this season, forgetting what to do or where to go; the red amnesiacs of autumn drifting thru the graveyard forest.
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Autumn Fall Forget Go Graveyard Leave Red Season Time Uneasily Where
I didn’t have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.
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Mama Measure Mother Other Stature Women
Theres a lot of churches that hide their dirty laundry under the rug, and I know about that from being in the church 27 years. Oh, yeah.
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Being Church Dirty Hide Know Laundry Rug Under Year
Trials can be hard, if you don’t know God.
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God Hard Religion Religious Trial
What they have forgotten they have forgotten: what they meant to do instead of fall is not in earth or time recoverable the fossils of intention, the shapes of rot.
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Earth Fall Forgotten Fossil Instead Intension Meant Recover Rot Time
And I’ve also found people that won’t give you a piece of bread if you’re starving to death.
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Bread Death Found Give People Piece Starve
I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.
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Church Education Learn Stuff World
Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I’m one of those people.
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Believe Come Fairness People Rule Some
GM is operating in an intensely competitive global environment and reaching this tentative agreement allows us to continue to build momentum in the market with the award-winning vehicles and components produced in Canada.
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Agreement Award Environment Global Market Reach Tentative Vehicle Win Winning
So that’s my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me – a little ministry called love and happiness.
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Big Gave Happiness Little Love Man Ministry Upstair
And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I’ve drunk in a lifetime,
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Abroad Beer Drunk Float Lifetime Middle Occur
If I could live my life all over I’d do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same; there’s no way lord, to leave this love behind.
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Behind Camera Everything Film Leave Life Love Over Same
I did a whole concert in Atlanta with my fly open, and I had a black suit on and a white shirt. My white shirt was protruding from the fly.
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Black Concert Country Fly Open Prrotude Shirt Suit White Whole
I started writing when I was about thirteen.
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Start Thirteen Write

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