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Unity, Utility, Ubiquity

if you’re going to carry your gorgeous head around

in a sack

let it be

this beige plastic one

wait, that’s no good, it even says as much

on the bag

right there

next to the message

about Jesus

what we learn from this is

FAITH FIRST

SAFETY SECOND

the bag washed up on the beach

like some beautiful gift from an ocean that loves us back

so I thought it fitting to recruit it

what a load of damage these gulls love

doing to loot we leave unattended

as we work the water—

good for them

and their sideways eyes, I say—let’s run ads on bags

for their avian religion

that calls it kosher

to disinter and circumcise

Mormons with their beaks

unless it’s rude to bring up faith again

I’ll close this beach and start a cornfield

then I’m going to burn

down that cornfield

and build a bank

I can swim to save my own life at least

then swim back

to whatever’s left of you