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AMEN
AMEN
There are people who didn’t want Van Gogh to cut
Off his ear or for the hunchback of Notre Dame to be
So dam ugly but none of us can intervene in such things.
The asthmatic gasps for a breath as if he is sucking air
Through a straw; such is the case and the condition of
A condition some people are in. Let us say Amen to that.
There must be a million Amens for every occasion. Each
One has its own inflection but they are all punctuated by
An exclamation point. Amens are all a kind of ending.
In all our Amens we are looking for closure but it never comes.
We all want to intervene but we never do, especially when the
Preacher asks if we object to the wedding vows of someone.
Amen is for resignations: “What’s the use” or “Why bother”.
A parrot learns to say Amen by listening to the sound and he
Flies around saying, ‘Amen’. We give Amen all the meaning.
None of us wanted Marilyn Monroe to leave Joe DiMaggio.
That is no way to treat a hero. Amen belongs to all of us; both
Winners and losers. There is an Amen for each and everyone.
