Sunday, May 20, 2012

Sunday poetry



A Blessing


Sure, there may be no
angels guiding us towards light,
nor higher power


arranging scholarships,
nor parking spaces
that suddenly materialize


in front of the Olympus Theatre,
where your new play,
Sink or Swim,

is triumphing.


But then again
there is my neighbor, Mrs. Susan North, 
with her aluminum walker


and oxygen mask,
who takes her dog out twice a day 
and wears a plastic baggie


over her left hand
to pick up shit
so all the other living people 


won't have to step in it.


~ Tony Hoagland

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