Randall McNair
Dec 7, 20201 min
Collins says that mortality is the underlying theme of Western poetry (“Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.”)
--from an article by Jim Manney at: https://www.ignatianspirituality.com/billy-collins/
On the short car ride
from Alameda island
to Bay Farm island,
I was trying in vain
to explain to my ten year-old
why God lets people
die of floods, and earthquakes
and cancer.
My son interrupted me.
Dad, he said
you know how I see God?
I see him as
an out of work
construction worker
who’s dancing around
his apartment
in his underwear,
a beer in one hand
and a hammer in the other...
so, of course he’s going to
break some things.
We can’t expect perfection
from a guy like that, can we?