Saturday, February 25, 2012

What it isn*t...

Lent, almost like Christmas,  has accrued its own oddities.  Whoever came up with all you can eat fried fish was probably a marketing genius. 

Lent is not
The Friday
All-you- can-eat fried fish
Buffet,
Even if it is
All cod.
Or Sunday off
To fulfill every chocolate
Desire
Before Monday comes
Even if it doesn*t count
In the number of days.
It is not 
forty days in a wilderness camp
With hot running water,
Sherpas who schlep everything
For us.

Ah the temptations
Mostly unnamed
In this wilderness,
Life with the wild beasts,
Angels-in-waiting.

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