go away

the room is silent excepting the hum of the fridge and the shuffling of various appendages the party commences a book is rifled through
someone begins to read aloud the fridge stops its bland drone and the room becomes warmer though the heater ceased its breath hours before

another reader and another
some discourse about the text
then again another reader

wait a minute i have something important to say
(the fridge begins its awful atonal song)
no really i want you guys to hear this what i have to say is really important
(a chill fills the room someone gets up to turn the heater on the spirit has left)

for the next twenty minuets the idiot speaks in circles saying absolutely nothing like a dog chasing its own tail arguing with himself in a crowded room pontificating with fifty cent words
many laugh nervously some actually try to make sense out of nonsense a few stare at their feet or the floor waiting for it to end to return to silence to a calm reverence
the book is shut why bother opening it in this commotion this petty doubt

at some point we must pray after the tired jokes and boring puns have finally run out
real babies are dying of double kidney failure real mothers have broken feet the woman sitting across from you may have any number of cancers

shut up fool babble someplace else if you have no respect for our king nor your peers at the very least quit contradicting your own sweet self
just pray casual whatever

around and around we go all others in earnest
one begins and the silence and the warmth return
words seep slowly like sap then flow like tears

amen




no please sir
no really you imbecile
please just

go away