3 Prayers

Desire,

I'm so thankful

for everything you haven't given me.


Dear God,

Please let me live
to beg again.


Dear Mother,
I'm sorry,
I've hung with the wrong crowd.

I will learn to use a knife and fork again.

(Painting "Venus of the Rags" by Michelangelo Pistoletto, 1967 -- Hirshorn Museum, Washington D.C.)