I don’t how my friend is yet


cup

cup
of coffee
of Communion wine
of the cool cup of water offered
in arid need
and I don’t think the Scripture denotes
cool
but I like to think of summer
desert comfort in that way
and
which is more important
which meets
the greater need and I guess it is the wine
for sacrament
though
without the water
I think you know there is nothing for the parched
to hear
the better evangelism to meet
the Earthly need
first

and if all in prison
then
we share the words we may
out
of the well of nothingness
we share

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(c.f. the parable of the sheep and the goats, Matthew 25:31-46)

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