- The writer stares at paper,
- moaning for his missing muse.
- Nothing will appear until She does,
- whispering the perfect words in his ear.
- It will be his name on the book, the poem, the story,
- with no mention of how he happened to hear those words.
- .
- Priests wear dresses,
- Marists, even to the Pope.
- Hers are their favorite prayers,
- her image on chains around their necks.
- But they are not worshipping a goddess, they tell us,
- merely the mother of the man who is the one true God.
- .
- Porgy heads north behind a goat.
- He will find out where she has gone,
- his glimmering girl, his junky Bess.
- He can live without walking, always has.
- But he cannot live without Her.
- .
- GI Joe mutates from plastic to agony
- and a gut-shot soldier cries out—
- Make it stop, Mama.
- She cannot.
- But he knows where to direct his prayers.
