Shattering Stone » Poetry http://blog.shatteringstone.com The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him. Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:07:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Three Dollars Worth of God http://blog.shatteringstone.com/archive/three-dollars-worth-of-god/ http://blog.shatteringstone.com/archive/three-dollars-worth-of-god/#comments Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:15:32 +0000 Mike http://blog.shatteringstone.com/?p=290 
I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please.

Not enough to explode my soul
    or disturb my sleep,
        but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk
            or a snooze in the sunshine.

I don’t want enough of God
    to make me love a black man
        or pick beets with a migrant.

I want ecstasy,
    not transformation.

I want warmth of the womb,
    not a new birth.

I want a pound of the Eternal in a paper sack.

I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please.

—Wilbur Reese
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