19th July 2024

 

garden bounty

blackcurrants and gooseberries

the first blackberry

© Rachel Green July 2024

There is no God

unless you're hitchhiking on the A1

from Edinburgh to Birmingham

and then there comes a prayer

for every car passing that declines to stop

"Please, God, make the fifth car stop for me,"

followed by bargaining:

I'll go to church

I'll vote for Thatcher

I'll only suck Catholic cock

And then despair and accusations:

You don't exist unless...

I'll covert to Anglican

I'll kiss the arses of goats

And then Rapturous joy,

but the driver didn't stop because of prayer

but because seven hundred and sixty three is my lucky number

and besides,

I prayed to Satan instead,

© Rachel Green July 2024