after
the third drink
he
christened himself
‘yankee
doodle dan’
he
threw up both hands
and
shouted ‘hooray’
before
he noticed
he was
the only one
celebrating
but
that didn’t dampen much of anything
he
ordered a round for the table
and
that got ‘em talking
again
they
said
‘dan
where
you at
and how
did you get so fat
you
used to be rail thin
and
always running
what
happened man
what
happened'
‘dan’
chuckled to himself
there
aren’t many things in this life
worth
compromising your health
but the
one that keeps popping up
is the
pursuit
of
wealth
which
is what i’ve been doing
on my
way to hell
and
yes, i do have a few stories to tell
there
was a tall man
in africa
he
tried to make me drink some water
that
wasn’t water
do you
know what i mean
he
wasn’t trying to poison me
well
i mean
that
water wasn’t poison
but his
words were
his
faith was
i forget
his why
but
remember
his because
he said
the
whole thing came to him
as a
revelation
and did
i see jesus that way
he was
a little taken aback
when i
told him i’d never met the man
that i
sold bibles from nineteen to twenty-three
but
never believed a word of that thing
he said
are you
a muslim
on a
cairo street
just
past supper time
i
couldn’t help but laugh
and
take it back
i told
him jesus was
almost certainly
black
then he
pretended to have a heart attack
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