if our future's history
could tell all its secrets
apart from all those already told
what could we as a people in turn
hope to learn
a lesson in some foul in nature
perhaps
or a shot in the sore arm of morality
to better help each soul
to quietly reaffirm
why, I bet theologians would cuss
just to get a chance to have
their say in this............
(May 18, 1999)