Monday, January 20, 2025

RESPONSIBILITIES

 

Sobek the Crocodile says that after an apocalypse

The great gods and demons generally stand

Or lie where they've fallen, trying to recall

Which side they were on. Harried ghosts

Circulate among them, passing out licenses

Perversely or at random which is why

He is currently run off his reptilian feet as the god 

Of irrigation, plagues, conjugal love, marquetry,

Mondays from three to five in the morning,

And certain cereal grains while an Ohio woman 

Has two gods and a demon assigned exclusively to her

One to grant her prayers, one to deny them and one

To remind her to feed the cat and check her mail.

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