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Monotheism

Between you and me there’s a pyramid
Outside this window when we wake
It seems to have gotten closer after every night
Something planned by its builders
To stupefy generations to the last
I’ve joined a band of looters
On a circuit of readings
You’re off rolling a giant rock
In front of your secret chamber
Between you and me there’s only the foundation
Left of a palace of troubled dimensions
Where ceremonies competed with each other
Until this moment of ease arrived
Of buildings crumbled to be dreamed about
In another time it was the opposite
Suffocated in a tomb with a menagerie of mummified guests
Pets bundled just as tightly in their comical masks
The pleasures of the many concentrated in the one
It was radical but failed to catch on
With those of a new past
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Unknown maker, American. The Sphinx, Pyramid and Kneeling Camel, Cairo, Egypt., about 1910. Color Photomechanical. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

Armando Jaramillo Garcia was born in Colombia and raised in New York City. He graduated from Aviation High School and attended Hunter College. Prelude Books will publish his first collection of poetry, The Portable Man, in 2017. His work has also appeared recently in The Boston Review, Public Pool, Prelude, Horse Less Review, TYPO, inter|rupture, Pinwheel, and others.
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