Divine Nothingness by Gerald Stern

Author:Gerald Stern
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

FREE LUNCH

I don’t give a damn who gets a free lunch

in the first Methodist church on Union Street,

I just wish they’d fix their roof and let us

alone for a while, though you can tell a schnorrer

because he looks around and then puts

two quarters in the jar instead of say

a sawbuck and looks so happy leaving

as if he’d just put one over on the canary

or the wild volunteer in the orange apron, but your

heart would go out to the large-headed woman

who picked up her doll from a wooden high chair

and carried it out September 11, 2012.

And for God’s sake, someone bring up Isaiah

who had his faults amen but

refused to budge and he was sawn in half

at the end and someone bring up Debs

who ran for president five times

on the Socialist ticket and the last time

got a million write-in votes while serving

time because he hated war and said that

while there’s a lower class, he was in it,

and while there’s a soul in prison, he was not free,

and so on, so where’s his stamp, post office?

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