MEMO
RE: GOD


TO: THOSE WHO THINK GOD IS A SOLITARY OLD MAN
WHO SITS ALONE IN AN ANCIENT ROCKING CHAIR
PEEPING THROUGH THE CURTAINS
AT HIS FASCINATING NEIGHBORS DOWNSTAIRS.

You are mistaken.
There is an old Black woman
Who splits the stream of
Michigan Avenue pedestrians
Every day with loneliness.
Look into her eyes.

Published in Rambunctious Review Volume X, 1993. © 1993 Steven Schroeder
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