Jesus, i

‘Jesus, i’                                 timothy r gates, 10/18/2013

Jesus, i
prayed, "Please."
(Four years old, my
first time.)
You must've been busy....
Tom waits,
"Away on business;
Why wasn't God watching?"
Rachel's lament,
millenniums of buried dirges
kept their tears from heaven's sight.
used by
prophets of old
used, still, by
temple preachers, calling it
providence.
(The thing pointing
is not the thing,
the thing points to the thing.)
"This hurts me more than you,"
innocuous bullshit,
only topped by,
"We all deserve death and hell."
Grown up,
Ha!
i, still, pray.
Difference?
We're both busy,
and we both attend to business.