Prayer

Eat less
under the starving vanilla sky --
Beat back excess
like wafers clinging to coffee.
Thomas Merton mutters
holy scriptures
while in the playpen,
the devil blisters.
Death in the breeze --
chopstick clouds spread lacy fingers
cuddling vanilla wafers --
clinging rodents
gripping Solomon's trash,
while underaged prostitutes
spread sepulcheric wisdom
playing skin-flutes
(tanned little girl faces) --
Beat back excess,
praise be
the best
glory unto Him
Glory be the highest,
stutter --
words
shades of empty
form.