May Day

May Day
By Nathan Brown in Hobson`s Choice
Edmond, OK: Greystone Press, 2002

Saturday – May 1, 1999
black Nike Airs set a quick pace
untanned calves flash in sunlight
a saffron robe with brown tasseled belt
flaps down the side of I-35
wire-frame glasses struggle to support
a concerned cro-magnon brow
brown bushy hair tires
to cover the shiny cue ball.
a stoic shoulder
harnessed with a nine foot cross-
black rubber wheel attached to the bottom-
Wal-Mart special.

a sign on the back of the cross roars at traffic
coming up behind:

GOD WANTS
PRAYER
BACK IN
SCHOOL.

and I`m thinkin`-
Jesus didn`t get a wheel

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