First a disclaimer:
My god is not
necessarily
yours, but she is
undeniably
hungry for a comfort-food
snack of peanut butter
and Fluff brand
whipped marshmallow spread.
(Yeah, I know,
nasty stuff, yet
every god has her quirks)
She's actually
more demiurge,
needy and enduring
a dangerously dull day
ideating at the office
that gets worse when
she opens the gripe-box
to unfold a complaint
pasted in ransom-note letters:
"Too stingy with praise.
Resent the ego stroking
going one way."
"Can't stroke what you ain't got,"
she cracks, tipping back
a cold glass of froth-topped milk.
The bubbling laughter
seizes her
mid-swallow, and
caught up by
a soul-clearing cough,
stars spray out speckling
black tile in a no-longer dark
part of the universe
we call home.
Jun 18, 2010
Jun 18, 2010 at 5:15 PM UTC
First a disclaimer:
My god is not
necessarily
yours, but she is
undeniably
hungry for a comfort-food
snack of peanut butter
and Fluff brand
whipped marshmallow spread.
(Yeah, I know,
nasty stuff, yet
every god has her quirks)
She's actually
more demiurge,
needy and enduring
a dangerously dull day
ideating at the office
that gets worse when
she opens the gripe-box
to unfold a complaint
pasted in ransom-note letters:
"Too stingy with praise.
Resent the ego stroking
going one way."
"Can't stroke what you ain't got,"
she cracks, tipping back
a cold glass of froth-topped milk.
The bubbling laughter
seizes her
mid-swallow, and
caught up by
a soul-clearing cough,
stars spray out speckling
black tile in a no-longer dark
part of the universe
we call home.
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