Did she love and leave you
Did he shove and bereave you
Raise your hand! Raise your hand!

Did you press your hungry face into
The breast of your god’s lovingkindness
Looking for milk and finding instead
Sour flesh and fear’s bitter nets
Raise your hand! Raise your hand!

Did you strive to reach the top
Of a mountain of dead fish
All humankind’s artifice and arrangement
And look out upon the ocean
Of car parts and party bars
Crusty with dried promises and blood
Raise your hand! Raise your hand!

Did you reach for the sky
And find instead an empty entropy
Of burned out stars and black holes
Belching x rays and cold gas
For you and all your hangers-on
To breathe in and collect into bags
To sell to your wide-eyed children
And share the devastation of your souls
Raise your hand! Raise your hand!

Then come along, come along
And suck in this final truth
That the only thing that can fill the void
Is void.

                                RGA 12-8-09