Soup Bone

everyone feeds off the poor
the last major soup bone for the universal cure
those who advocate, those who legislate

those who sleep too late

those who castigate, those who confliscate,
those who berate and berate and berate and
those who open the gate

to so many plagues on them
they cannot be numbered
all in the the name of
stealing so much thunder.

and in the silent auctions
getting it all back and with interest.
some even get awards.

some play a few Grammy winning chords.
some make budgets for them

while they're living out of doors.some

get their names up in lights
pretending to befriend them
and perhaps this is

the saddest sin; but

they, each one disinherited in a singular snowflake way
inherit also Christ speaking to them in beautiful riddles
on a hillside in Spring.

mary angela douglas 9 april 2020