What Now, Captain America?

                                    –after the Finnish of Pentti Saarikoski

God said to Satan:

“Bow down in remembrance of me.”

Satan said: “But you are

a mathematical proposition

Or else you’re nothing

& either way—just for the sake of argument,

Abstractions are graven images.”

God punished Satan by making him the commandant of Gitmo.

Pages turned on calendars of mankind.

The wicked prospered beyond their wildest dreams.

& Satan climbed in and out of human eyes

& his footprints felt like nothing more than sand. 

S.K.

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