Psalm for Distribution
Lord,
on 8th Street
between 6th Avenue and Broadway
in Greenwich Village
there are enough shoe stores
with enough shoes
to make me wonder
why there are shoeless people
on the earth.
Lord,
Lord,
You have to fire the Angel
in charge of distribution.
-- Jack Agüeros, "Psalm for Distribution," from Lord, Is This a Psalm? (Hanging Loose Press, 2002).
-- Jack Agüeros, "Psalm for Distribution," from Lord, Is This a Psalm? (Hanging Loose Press, 2002).