libretto

God is a funny old thing
which I suppose
has not been said so often
and
maybe should not be said again

old
though
well
because you know

and funny because
there’s the ostrich
and the platypus
and auk

and us

and we’re funny when we’re not
tragic
such goodness and also
such corruption
and what to do with funny
old
us
not so ole
though we have tried the Earth
over ages

as an image

and are there parts of
the model we’re forgetting
the eccentric
parts
the kind
the giving when the bottom line says no

a resistance to build monuments
and let art live in
other places
other ways
that let stone breathe
and
even plastic we might build with

even to take the things with
which we poison
Earth
flora and fauna and let them speak
creative

while we go creative
first and also practical
because all
our strengths
are
strong out of
belief in ourselves
and
that’s the model
too

for God is all that’s good and also
useful
also beautiful
in all the ways we have been made and not
to judge so much as
dance

remembering the first inspirator
in
our notes
and in our steps

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photograph by Hans at Unsplash