walking by he briefly overheard thembriefly
caught part of their exchange
it astonished him
it wasnt often he heard it on the
street not often he heard men talk of rapture
almost physically he had to
resist his temptationdesire to interrupt them to tell them explain that they mistook what one said he saw
it wasnt His Light
Blight
blight Gawds Bright Blight
if someone had been watching him
they might have noticed a catch a hitch in his gittup almost checking a step to stop to tell them
what he thought Ha solicit he disliked solicitors
if someone were watching
Yeah, man, God touched me this
morning. His Holy Light filled my head, shined in my eyes, it blinded me; I was
ecstatic.
Bless you, brother, that’s remarkable!
How very fortune, your words uplift me . .
Keep walking keep walking keep walking forward . .
he lost their voices in the
sounds of traffic
they were homeless men standing
behind a metal and acrylic-paneled bus stop in shabby clothing the second man was much olderhe had a cane wrappedbarber-poled
in white tape that was filthy and unraveling
as he walked he wondered why Gods
Blightwhy God sought to infect the needywhy they seemed susceptible perhaps the wealthy who embraced Him were held
up as artifice to what God might provide if He deemed someone worthy Pray for goodness, children or perhaps what the brothers behind the bus
stop bought into was verse Matthew 5:5 Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit
the earth.
that might be hogwash
this brief Anthropocene is seemingly
feathering outgiving way to something new new
need not be better the Meek? maybe the bus stop boys
assume they represent the Meek maybe
they are
or maybe the Meek are insects maybe what the Anthropocene is giving way to
is The Age of Articulating Cockroaches
Gawds Brilliant Blight
or Gawds disturbing sense of
humour
same Actor whoif one is religious mightshould question why He The Beneficent allowed the Armenian Genocide the 1918 Flu Pandemic Holodomor Stalins Ukrainian
famine Hitlers Holocaust Pol Pots Cambodian Killing Fields and those
before and those after and to come
the homeless man was blinded by The
Light
Blight can blind too
1404, Sunday,
29 9. 19
0948, Friday,
4 10. 19
1211,
Saturday, 5 10.
19
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band Blinded by the Light https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVOvNZxS7vA
