“blessing”
god said, enjoy your
afternoon, you deserve it.
thanks, i said, i’ll try.
he shook my hand
and walked away
45 minutes later
i sat in the spring sun
on a poorly painted porch
drinking mexican beer
i got to thinking about god,
how he’d been involuntarily
committed for the past 6 years,
i wondered if he’d be happy to know
i was enjoying my afternoon
then a breeze came by
and i thought about something else.
Tohm Bakelas is a social worker in a psychiatric hospital. He was born in New Jersey, resides there, and will die there. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, zines, and online publications. He has published 10 chapbooks. He runs Between Shadows Press.
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