Good News/Bad News
Good News/Bad News
And then there was the man–look!–
who fell out of an aero plane. That was the bad news.
But, phew! he fell onto a haystack–
the good news: that apparently his back
was not broken
through the intervention of
dried grass.
But hey! there was
a needle in that stack–bad news. Except, wait–
he turned out to have a camel
in his pocket, which fit exactly through the eye
of that needle–good news–
for that took him straight to, do-not-pass-go to,
the kingdom of heaven, not
so much because he was a rich man
but because the haystack hadn’t worked that well after all–
not against a fall
from the sky.
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This is the reworking of an old rather silly poem that is actually in my book Going on Somewhere. I am posting it for Mary’s post “on the other hand” on dVerse Poets Pub. Check out dVerse. Check out my books!
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