Saint Peter and the Goldfinch by Jack Ridl

Author:Jack Ridl [Ridl, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: POE000000 Poetry / General
Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Heaven

Groucho guards the gate, more

bewildering than God in judging

supplicants. Behind him Harpo,

his hair reason enough to realize

there’s nothing we can do. “Say

the secret word.” “Logos!”

we shout. Groucho taps his long

cigar. “What?” he laughs. “Logos?!

What the hell is logos?” We

are terrified. We look to Harpo.

He smiles, shrugs, honks his horn,

pulls some celery from his coat

and gnaws. Groucho lights

a new cigar, arcs his eyebrows,

moving the clouds of heaven higher,

then looks so sadly at us that we ache

to know what we have done. Groucho

turns his back, catches sight of a slithery

blonde and slinks his way away,

healing the sullen, turning loaves

and fishes into parakeets, and

somehow dragging us through

into the madness of eternity.

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