[lit-ideas] New Poems For A New Year

  • From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 20:26:06 -0600

THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POEM

Sassafras.
The gull flew north.  It's wings touched -- nothing.
Christ in heaven, is there any need so immediate
as THAT to make God hear you?

It is wrong to pray that God
will grab you by the shirt front and shake you
into meaningfulness.

You must shake God out of his indifference.
Tell him that you will obey only yourself.
Even God can understand that.

Mike Geary
Memphis  

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