who yawns

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It is God who yawns and sneezes

and coughs, and now laughs.

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Look, it's God doing ablutions!

God deciding to fast, God going naked

from one New Year's Eve to the next.

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Will you ever understand

how near God is

to you?

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~ Lalla
from Naked Song
translations by Coleman Barks

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