Wednesday, June 11, 2014

undiagnosed sins


My personally brewed pot; Columbian
coffee, beans ground but a second before being

showered with cold tap. It’s bleak, more
mystery than my outlook; I sit n’ sip one eye

closed. Taste buds be born again. Please,
a bland awareness is still existence.  

I asked from God forgiveness,
the other day,

for some of the wrongs so heavy with traffic
they charged a toll on me.

My nose is immune to scents—
like I’m eating black

plague jellied toasts and all that returns
to Earth is more plague, breadless. 

Racing to the porcelain altar,
my finish line, flushed.

Sick, but I’m not alone when I pray.
Illness for us all makes us believers.

Perhaps Pharaoh never learned how to swim—
Found petrified, a sunken, pointing terd

preserved, submerged by parting seas.
He submits, too

late, and the Truth is truly, we all

ask for help when we’re helpless.

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