Spiritual Exercises
by Kevin Brown
- I have ignored my spiritual
- health, neglected the holy ghost
- jumping jacks and deep Catholic
- knee bends, performed Lutheran
- lunges only to get out
- of the church, and I am barely able
- to manage three Presbyterian
- push-ups, though I know I am meant
- to do more. So it is no surprise
- my soul sags
- more than the belly of a middle-aged,
- third-world dictator
- in a Speedo. Every morning, I sleep
- late, not running the race
- before me, sit in the stands
- with a slurpee, wonder why
- everyone on the track is working
- so hard.
