Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:30:03 -0500
From: Kafka Dreams 
To: void
Subject: bless


dear madam/sir, 

please bless this blister and the toe

bless the high pitched squealing giggles and the sticky tape that
won't come off the fingers

bless that itchy bit right in the middle of the back between the
shoulder blades where fingers can't quite reach without pulling
muscles

bless the pulled muscle from trying

bless the frog water

bless itchy nose hairs and the dust who was probably somebody once

bless unused hangers and lingering electrons

bless the twisted

bless cheezy electronica from the 80's

bless the sneeze

bless the soul that didn't escape in the sneeze

bless the nucleus and the membrane and all in between

bless the incredibly stubbornly stupid

bless a handi-wipe or two

bless those incurable things jumping species and countries and
hitchhiking on airplanes and buses and trains and cars and feets

bless the sad

bless our cheese and your breadsticks and their wine

bless the soft worn places in my oldest pair of jeans

bless all the people who cause spontaneous crying 

bless that bit of sidewalk where the brick keeps coming up and
tripping everyone

bless our scars

bless the crinkly sound hair makes when you rub it between your
fingers 

bless the color lime green as reproduced in that hideous artificial
way 

and bless this tired brain in this big old head full of grinding teeth
and leaky eyeballs and wrapped in a taut muscle package bless bless
bless until the word loses all meaning and turns into light
illuminating but not hurting so everyone can see