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Attention is the very essence of prayer. I am the bread of only my life. I look at prayers on the page. I read them and I lay my voice on top of the prayers. I drape them with my voice and make them mine. I put on my jacket and go out into the night to meet other prayers. I was nine when the Lord wasn’t watching over my family as I had prayed he would for all of those nights. The fuck, he smashed my brother’s car into a utility pole on a south Florida interstate, killing him and two other nineteen year-old boys. It was a shit place to die, Florida, and a shit way to die, nineteen and crushed with his friends. My parents grieved and my sisters grieved and we all fell apart as everything seemed to be ending.
Publication Date
2010
Keywords
prayer narrative
Disciplines
Creative Writing | Religion
Recommended Citation
DiTrapano, Giancarlo, "How to Become a Prayer" (2010). On Earth As It Is. 21.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/onearth/21
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"How to Become a Prayer" was originally published at On Earth As It Is.
Image by Matthew Simmons.