All in a Day's Work

A Nigerian “soldier” rapes a nine year old girl
A Chinese coal burning facility belches toxic smoke
A small boy in India digs through garbage…for his breakfast
A woman in Afghanistan blows herself and 47 other people to smithereens
A fat hedge fund manager sweats profusely looking up at bouncing silicon
A pompous athlete points to sky after hitting a fifty thousand dollar home run
A hurricane blows across a mid-west landscape ripping limbs from trees and people
A Palestinian, ancient and wise, points out to kids where his “country” used to be
A man armed with chainsaw removes one more piece of life sustaining Brazilian rain forest
A toothless 40 year old woman pushes her home, a shopping cart, under a rippling U.S. flag
A man is tortured somewhere in Eastern Europe for being in the wrong place at the wrong time
A Mexican farm laborer stretches his aching back before resuming his “salad making duties”
A Muslim man is beaten senseless by British hooligans for the sole crime of wearing a turban
A “Man of the cloth” coerces a young boy with angelic voice to come later for “private lessons”
A politician somewhere…everywhere, looks about attentively before sticking hand in “cookie jar”
A dog, a cat, a raccoon, a deer is crushed beneath the wheels of what is euphemistically called “progress”
A child is born, a woman dies, a man laughs, a “lost soul” cries, and the cycle is forevermore repeated
And God, watching from the beginning of time and the outer boundaries of amaranthine space
Weeps