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Megan Donahue is a freshman at Endicott College studying English with a minor in Digital Media: Concentration in Film and Television Production. She hopes to one day be a screenwriter and director. She is passionate about film watching and filmmaking, and she loves storytelling as well as poetry, reading, and painting.

Body and Blood

“Be devout. Be good. Then I will smile
down from heaven in the seam of a cloud”
(Anne Sexton, Cinderella).

Megan Donahue

I do not believe in God.
But there was a time that I did.
My father taught me how to pray,
All at the age of four.
“Be devout. Be good. Then [He] will smile
down from heaven in the seam of a cloud.”
And so the good girl I was,
I crossed my heart and hoped to die,
Who will stick the needle in my eye?
At Summer VBS¹ they told me,
Fear hell, love Him:
He is in every man.
Never taught to be devoted to myself,
So with his cruel endeavor,
I was free for the taking,
Cut Piece²,
Body and Blood.

— Megan Donahue

¹ VBS – Vacation Bible School
² Cut Piece – Performance Art by Yoko Ono

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