A Surprise
Posted Sunday, Jul 25th, 2010 at 11:56pmI found this poem in my mom's papers. I evidently wrote it in 2007 and sent it along to her. When I found it I didn't remember writing it but when I saw the picture it went with I knew it was mine.: it was of my sculpture
The Statue of Liberty
The statue of liberty
and the sky god Nut
shacked up
at a cross cultural awareness conference.
The event was pretty much a disaster
what with the feminists and the roman gods bickering in line to the buffet table.
The Greeks pretty much stuck to themselves in the lap pool.
The Buddhist nuns and monks wouldn’t stop chanting even when the women from the Congo put out their appeal.
Somebody proclaiming to be the great great great grandson of Confucius
waved a protest sign in the back of the room.
But then, 15 months later,
When the conference organizers were still in therapy
The new Child Susan –
The sky child
was born.
She had rays of stone light coming from her head,
Her gray skin glistened in glass
She was born with a green coil platter in her hands
asking for a tea light
And she asked us
“Please
Could you bring light to the world?”
No one could quite tell her “no.”
She had such innocence in her gaze.
Word got around.
The conference organizers came out of therapy.
The newspapers were all headlines:
Illegitimate Child of Statue of Liberty
Tells all!
She was on Oprah and Dr. Phil:
“Come on baby light my fire!”
she urged.
And all those millions of listeners remembered
When they too were first in love –
Hot gulping monkey love.
And the world gave a collective sigh: hmm they all wondered
could this work?
Maybe, just maybe.
