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Saguaro Poem


by Mark Waldrop


I thought I would write a poem
About a saguaro trying to please God

The saguaro would spend a hundred years
Growing an arm and offering flowers in its fist —
God barely notices.

 The saguaro flowers a crown for God.
More arms.

God then loses his patience with the saguaro
And strikes it dead as fuck with lightening
Zap.

 But then I began to hate the poem
And the saguaro, and
I could see why God could care less.

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